just as the animus that drove Trumpism is continually denied.

on other parts of the board after the referendum. We weren't saying it was the whole motivation, but it was a significant one for many.

The article does sound a positive note that could point to a way forward, though:

And more data has come out confirming what we argued - till we were blue in the face.

And I agree with that quote: the remedy to this is contact, relationships, (cosmopolitanism essentially)

My mother-in-law visited from Norwich a few weeks ago. She voted "leave" based exclusively on anti immigration, insisting that too many Syrians are flooding in solely to freeload.

We had what arguments we could without ruining civility....

But it was clear that many, many people voted "leave" based on anti-immigration, and it certainly gave that side a big run-up in the polls in the weeks prior to the vote, when they really amped up that aspect of it.

Frankly I think the pros and cons of eu membership and what a brexit would look like was far too complicated a decision for many, but the idea of weak borders and immigration decided in Brussels was something simple they could latch on to and ignore everything else.

The leave side attracted Alf Garnett types by the bucketload and immigrant bashing was a major part of the leave campaign.

And the leave campaign was most successful in areas with little to no immigration, and with aging, poorly educated voters.