Far right niche

I heard a professor say this morning on the radio that Nigel Farage's niche of voters is the same people who voted 'leave' in Brexit.

In my mind, these are the same people who have the St George's flag 'patriotically' displayed outside their homes and who might be attending (or at least honking as they go past) a demonstration outside a hotel currently housing asylum seekers.

When encountering extreme views in class from students who, to be honest, are probably largely repeating what they have heard exclaimed at home, I have sometimes proffered a particular analogy which is that reacting in that way to immigration, legal or otherwise is like reading just one page of a novel and thinking you know the whole story in the other 359 pages.

The other 359 pages would contain all the history of immigration into the UK, the UK actually becoming THE UNITED KINGDOM in the first place and plenty of looking at those with extreme opinions' ancestry and even recent family history. Just doing a DNA test and seeing what their make-up is could make an anti-immigrationer pause for a thoughtful scratch of the head.