There could also be an effect of loss fatigue at play. If a community is homogenous, it’s likely that elections are handing more people ‘wins’ each time, than if it’s very diverse and the minority groups whose priorities never win start to feel that civic participation is pointless.
Or it could also be an effect of the dominant group in a diverse area intentionally throwing up barriers in order to discourage civic engagement by minorities, i.e. voter suppression.
Both of those are things we’ve directly observed in US elections, and neither is an argument against diversity, it’s an argument against winner-take-all government.
There could also be an effect of loss fatigue at play. If a community is homogenous, it’s likely that elections are handing more people ‘wins’ each time, than if it’s very diverse and the minority groups whose priorities never win start to feel that civic participation is pointless.
Or it could also be an effect of the dominant group in a diverse area intentionally throwing up barriers in order to discourage civic engagement by minorities, i.e. voter suppression.
Both of those are things we’ve directly observed in US elections, and neither is an argument against diversity, it’s an argument against winner-take-all government.