In one corner you have the ancestors of the people who got off the boat and went straight to work in factories doing mindless manual labor for substandard wages.
In the other corner you have the ancestors of the people who got off the boat, saved enough money to travel 2000-3000 miles in a wagon, successfully planned for and completed the voyage, then staked a claim and farmed it enough to provide for themselves and sell the rest to others.
It's no wonder one group remains dumb and scared, voting for every pathetic scrap they can get their hand just to stay a sliver above poverty, while the other group is all "leave me alone, I've got this".