Yeah, I can see that being the case. Always gotta have an out group to hate if you're conservative. It reminds me of the whole "People don't want to work!" nonsense. I saw a post once that collected pictures of newspaper articles going back to the 1800s that all complained about "the kids these days" being lazy and not wanting to work. Any one of them could have been written today. I guess the tactic of focusing people's ire has been working for quite a long time.