{"id":66112,"date":"2026-11-10T11:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T16:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=66112"},"modified":"2026-11-10T11:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T16:47:07","slug":"this-is-not-helpful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=66112","title":{"rendered":"This Is Not Helpful"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, Breitbart<\/a> posted an article about a speech made by newly-elected Senator Abdul El-Sayed. In a speech given on Friday, the newly-elected Senator referred to Michigan as \u201cthe capital of Arab America.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m honored to be the next United States senator from the great state of Michigan, which of course I know we\u2019re here in D.C. which of course is the capital of the United States of America,\u201d he said. \u201cBut Michigan is the capital of Arab America.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The term \u201cCapital of Arab America\u201d has historically been used to describe<\/a> the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Michigan, the city that has the largest Arab population in the United States, many of them descendants of families that came in the early 20th century seeking jobs in Henry Ford\u2019s auto assembly plants. It also has the largest Lebanese-American population in the U.S.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dearborn aside, statewide, California reportedly<\/a> has more Arab Americans than Michigan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite El-Sayed\u2019s boast, the Arab American community in Michigan is still predominantly Christian, starting with the Lebanese Maronite Catholics who have been in the Detroit area for 100 years, as well as Chaldeans from Iraq and other Lebanese Christians who have historically been Republican voters.<\/strong><\/p>\n

America was designed to be a melting pot\u2014not a charcuterie board of different cultures that never mixed. A country will only succeed if it is united.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

The Arab American population in Michigan has grown by more than 87 percent since 2000, expanding from roughly 150,000 to as high as 400,000 currently, according to some reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The website Arab America explains:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Because Arab Americans are not officially recognized as a federal minority group, it is hard to determine the exact number of Arab Americans in Michigan. The estimates range from 409,000 to 490,000 based on information from the Michigan Health Department and the Zogby International polls respectively. In the Greater Detroit area, estimates range from 300,000 to 350,000. While the latest Zogby polls rank Michigan\u2019s Arab-American population as second largest in the U.S., after California, Michigan\u2019s Arab-American community in Southeast Michigan still has the greatest local concentration (California\u2019s Arab-American population is much more spread out).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dearborn and parts of Detroit are also represented by \u201cSquad\u201d member Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) who in 2018 because the first Palestinian American woman to be elected to Congress.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Declaring a region of America as \u201cArab America\u201d is not a good thing. The implication is that there is no attempt to assimilate into American culture. I have no objection to preserving the traditions of your native country, but if you come to America, plan on becoming an American.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, Breitbart posted an article about a speech made by newly-elected Senator Abdul El-Sayed. In a speech given on Friday, the newly-elected Senator referred to Michigan as \u201cthe capital of Arab America. The article reports: \u201cI\u2019m honored to be … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19846,19970,10331,3337,5805,144],"class_list":["post-66112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abdul-el-sayed","tag-arab-america","tag-breitbart-news","tag-dearborn-michigan","tag-henry-ford","tag-michigan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66113,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66112\/revisions\/66113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}