Part of the goal has been to turn citizens against each other. When times are hard, its important to have someone to blame. The r's have demonized brown, black and anyone who is pro-middle class, pro-poor. They throw a lot of ideological spaghetti against the wall and go with what ever sticks.
Anything is better than staying with the issues that they themselves refuse to address.
And we fall for it.
You certainly fell for some sort of false claims.
I'm surprised you admitted that.