0:00:01 > 0:00:02Bakersfield in California, where strong views about race
0:00:02 > 0:00:07are part of everyday life.
0:00:07 > 0:00:10Now on BBC One, with Donald Trump poised to become the Republican
0:00:10 > 0:00:12candidate for the US Presidency, Hilary Andersson visits
0:00:12 > 0:00:14Bakersfield in California, where strong views about race
0:00:14 > 0:00:15are part of everyday life.
0:00:15 > 0:00:17There are some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting
0:00:17 > 0:00:18in Panorama.
0:00:18 > 0:00:20Our country needs a truly great leader.
0:00:20 > 0:00:22Love him or hate him, Donald Trump today
0:00:22 > 0:00:23seeks the Republican nomination for president...
0:00:23 > 0:00:24Leave the area.
0:00:24 > 0:00:27...at a time when race is taking centre stage...
0:00:27 > 0:00:28They're bringing drugs.
0:00:28 > 0:00:30They're bringing crime.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32They're rapists.
0:00:32 > 0:00:34...in an election campaign marred by violence.
0:00:34 > 0:00:37They get called neck is at school.
0:00:37 > 0:00:41That's the key word around here - not or, monkey.
0:00:41 > 0:00:44I'm in Bakersfield California, a Donald Trump stronghold.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47I am sick of fair and reasonable.
0:00:47 > 0:00:50I want somebody that's going to take the bull by the horns and at least
0:00:50 > 0:00:51attempt to do something.
0:00:51 > 0:00:53I'm just tired of it.
0:00:53 > 0:00:55Vote Trump.
0:00:55 > 0:00:57I am angry.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00A place where minorities fear Trump's vision for America.
0:01:00 > 0:01:04How can somebody get so much support with so much hate?
0:01:04 > 0:01:10Tonight, we ask: Is America angry enough to vote in President Trump?
0:01:10 > 0:01:15I wouldn't count him out by a long shot.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33It looks like a Civil Rights march, but it's a presidential
0:01:33 > 0:01:40campaign rally, Trump-style.
0:01:40 > 0:01:48Inside, it's almost all white.
0:01:48 > 0:01:53Outside, it's not.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55Lines are being drawn.
0:01:55 > 0:01:57I don't want my tax dollars to buy Spanish books,
0:01:57 > 0:02:01pay for Spanish signs, pay for all this crap, just so you
0:02:01 > 0:02:03don't learn English.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05Learn English.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08Respect us - who said that?
0:02:08 > 0:02:10Oh, man what a great line that is.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13David Rogers is here to see his hero in the flesh.
0:02:13 > 0:02:15He loves Donald Trump.
0:02:15 > 0:02:19If you go to the Mexican neighbourhoods, where a lot
0:02:19 > 0:02:23of illegals are, I've seen some of them, I don't know who's legal,
0:02:23 > 0:02:26who isn't, I'm not an authority on that, but they're all dirty.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28A lot of people would say that's racist, what you're saying,
0:02:28 > 0:02:30painting a group of people dirty.
0:02:30 > 0:02:32Fine, then call it what you want.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34I don't hang around dirty people.
0:02:34 > 0:02:42I don't want to hang around people that throw trash out on the street.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45Nothing but street people live around here.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48David's from Bakersfield in California.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51There's no Hollywood glitz and glamour here.
0:02:51 > 0:02:56Bakersfield is poor and deeply Republican.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59I came here to try to understand why the Trump message
0:02:59 > 0:03:03is hypnotising America.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06Now that's, where that stop sign is on the other
0:03:06 > 0:03:09side of the red truck, that starts the bad area.
0:03:09 > 0:03:11Oh, really close to your house.
0:03:11 > 0:03:13Right there.
0:03:13 > 0:03:15And who lives here?
0:03:15 > 0:03:17All Mexicans, all Hispanic, Mexicans.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19What's the crime like over here?
0:03:19 > 0:03:22A lot of crime, a lot of killings, a lot of fighting, a lot
0:03:22 > 0:03:24of them, a LOT of theft.
0:03:24 > 0:03:29Nothing is safe here.
0:03:29 > 0:03:33In its heyday, Bakersfield, in Kern County, was a prosperous,
0:03:33 > 0:03:37mainly white, American city, a country music capital.
0:03:37 > 0:03:42# I'll never swim the Kern river again.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44# That's where I lost my best friend.
0:03:44 > 0:03:48# It was there where I met her.
0:03:48 > 0:03:50# It was there that I lost my best friend...#
0:03:50 > 0:03:54This was really a nice area when I was a little kid,
0:03:54 > 0:03:56really a nice area.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59So this is pretty much unrecognisable
0:03:59 > 0:04:01from how it used to be?
0:04:01 > 0:04:05A few of the houses look the same, they're old houses, but it's
0:04:05 > 0:04:06just absolutely trashed.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better
0:04:09 > 0:04:12than me, believe me, and I'll build them very inexpensively.
0:04:12 > 0:04:16I will build a great, great wall on our southern border,
0:04:16 > 0:04:20and I will have Mexico pay for that wall.
0:04:20 > 0:04:23Mark my words.
0:04:23 > 0:04:27A wall to keep illegal immigrants out of America.
0:04:27 > 0:04:31You've got to have a boundary if you're going to have a country.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33It's Sunday night and David, who runs a home-based computer
0:04:33 > 0:04:37business, is having a barbeque.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39The wall is symbolic.
0:04:39 > 0:04:43The wall is symbolic of all the problems,
0:04:43 > 0:04:45and being in Bakersfield we have a lot of them.
0:04:45 > 0:04:50What they should do is they should shoot them as they get to the top.
0:04:50 > 0:04:54If they fall over on the Mexican side, we're in the clear.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57If they fall on the American side, then we pay for their
0:04:57 > 0:04:59(BLEEP)ing medical.
0:04:59 > 0:05:02I'm American, I expect robust opinions here,
0:05:02 > 0:05:06but this took me aback.
0:05:06 > 0:05:09It's the ones that want free sort, the same thing with the Americans
0:05:09 > 0:05:12here who want free sort, they're all the same - whether
0:05:12 > 0:05:14they're white, brown or black.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16They're all the same.
0:05:16 > 0:05:19Their dad was worthless and their mom was worthless.
0:05:19 > 0:05:22They want something for free.
0:05:22 > 0:05:24David has many Mexican-American neighbours.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27This once virtually all-white town is now half Hispanic and black.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30How does it feel living on the same street as people
0:05:30 > 0:05:35who really like Trump?
0:05:35 > 0:05:37I think I'll grow into it.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40Everybody has their right.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42It's funny.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44It shows a bit of ignorance.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47People dislike the Mexicans or anybody brown or of Hispanic
0:05:47 > 0:05:50culture, because we're not doctors, engineers, lawyers
0:05:50 > 0:05:53or anything like that.
0:05:53 > 0:05:56We're just here to work.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58David, like most here, says he has no objection
0:05:58 > 0:06:03to immigrants as a whole, only to those here illegally.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06I have Mexican friends.
0:06:06 > 0:06:10I have black friends and just that alone makes me not a racist.
0:06:10 > 0:06:13Because I truly have those friends.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16They can call me up and I'd do anything for them.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18That shuts down the racism right there.
0:06:18 > 0:06:21When Mexico sends its people, they're sending people that
0:06:21 > 0:06:23have lots of problems.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25They're bringing drugs.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27They're bringing crime.
0:06:27 > 0:06:30They're rapists.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32And some, I assume, are good people.
0:06:32 > 0:06:35You get this clown out there saying that they come
0:06:35 > 0:06:37here to rape and deal drugs.
0:06:37 > 0:06:40How can somebody get so much support with so much hate?
0:06:40 > 0:06:42There's been a lot of controversy over the language that
0:06:42 > 0:06:45Donald Trump has used.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47Who cares, this is real life.
0:06:47 > 0:06:50Wait, wait, suggesting that all the immigrants are rapists or -
0:06:50 > 0:06:52He didn't say that.
0:06:52 > 0:06:55He didn't say that.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57A major percentage of them are though.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00The thing is, if they had something going for them in Mexico,
0:07:00 > 0:07:02why would they come here?
0:07:02 > 0:07:05I've always jokingly said that we're the new black people
0:07:05 > 0:07:07as for as Hispanics, we're the new black.
0:07:07 > 0:07:11We're getting all the hatred.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14Raul's partner, who used to be in the US military, resents Trump.
0:07:14 > 0:07:17I didn't fight for him to have the right to hate
0:07:17 > 0:07:20and to spread the hate.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23I fought for him to fight for unity and for us to be united
0:07:23 > 0:07:25because it's the United States.
0:07:25 > 0:07:28How are you going get this people to build this wall?
0:07:28 > 0:07:31Take all the illegals and they're the labour.
0:07:31 > 0:07:34Jesse's an air conditioning installer and a good
0:07:34 > 0:07:36friend of David's.
0:07:36 > 0:07:38He lives next door.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41We're building the wall.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43The wall's going up and Mexico's going to pay for it.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46I've talked to the president of Mexico and he's going to pay it.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48He knows he's going to pay for it.
0:07:48 > 0:07:49No, he's not.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51They say anything.
0:07:51 > 0:07:53I know you.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55You're a very intelligent man.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57It scares me that I know this many intelligent people
0:07:57 > 0:07:59that are this gullible.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02But nothing horrifies David's neighbours as much as Donald Trump's
0:08:02 > 0:08:04most radical proposal.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06We're going to have a deportation force and you're going
0:08:06 > 0:08:09to do it humanely.
0:08:09 > 0:08:11Deportation en masse of an estimated 11 million illegal
0:08:11 > 0:08:19or undocumented immigrants, most of whom are from Latin America.
0:08:19 > 0:08:2111 million people he's going to deport, whether
0:08:21 > 0:08:24documented or undocumented.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27If your parents were undocumented while they had you,
0:08:27 > 0:08:30you're going to Mexico, kids that have never
0:08:30 > 0:08:32even been to Mexico, don't even know Spanish.
0:08:32 > 0:08:36Hey, send them back, send them over there.
0:08:36 > 0:08:42Dean Haddock, a Bakersfield psychologist, is also
0:08:42 > 0:08:46the local Republican leader.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49Like many Republicans he's sceptical about Trump's deportation plan.
0:08:49 > 0:08:53It's just not going to happen.
0:08:53 > 0:08:56The people have been here so long, they're our families.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59They're my family too.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02Nobody's going to allow them to take them and move them back.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04It's not even their country any more.
0:09:04 > 0:09:10Mexican population that comes up here from Mexico, they don't
0:09:10 > 0:09:12assimilate into the community and become with us.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15They want to break away.
0:09:15 > 0:09:18They want to cause trouble.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21That's what scares me the most, all these people that came out
0:09:21 > 0:09:23of the woodwork being racist and supporting Trump
0:09:23 > 0:09:29and not acknowledging that it's hurting people.
0:09:32 > 0:09:34Bakersfield was built on the riches of the land.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37This is an oil town.
0:09:37 > 0:09:44But the glory days are no more.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46Look at all of them that are stopped.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49Never seen this many oil rigs anywhere.
0:09:49 > 0:09:51Look how many are stopped.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53They're all stopped.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55You have to look for one that's running.
0:09:55 > 0:09:57Yeah.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00The fall in global oil prices has had a devastating impact
0:10:00 > 0:10:02on jobs here.
0:10:02 > 0:10:04Last July, it dropped like a rock.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06Ensign laid off like 5,000 people overnight.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08Just because of the drop of the oil price?
0:10:08 > 0:10:10Yeah, they're gone.
0:10:10 > 0:10:14It's like a ghost town.
0:10:14 > 0:10:19I'm losing my house and I have no money to pay for it.
0:10:19 > 0:10:22On the edge of the oil field, on a back street, Shari Kent
0:10:22 > 0:10:25is selling up all her possessions.
0:10:25 > 0:10:28You're selling your stuff to try to make some money
0:10:28 > 0:10:31to pay your mortgage?
0:10:31 > 0:10:34Not my mortgage, just to buy food.
0:10:34 > 0:10:36Shari's been surviving on $10 an hour night shifts
0:10:36 > 0:10:42at the grocery store.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45Now her life's falling apart - divorce, stress and less work.
0:10:45 > 0:10:48It affected me by my hours being cut at work.
0:10:48 > 0:10:53Everybody, everybody's been laid off.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56It's all going to be crazy, because people got to eat.
0:10:56 > 0:10:59They've got to eat.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02They have to eat and they've got to pay bills.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04What are they going to do?
0:11:04 > 0:11:07I don't get it, any more.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09Shari believes Donald Trump will bring jobs.
0:11:09 > 0:11:12He seems like he can handle business.
0:11:12 > 0:11:16This is a business.
0:11:16 > 0:11:22I mean, taking care of the country is a business.
0:11:22 > 0:11:33This area has one of the highest unemployment rates in California.
0:11:34 > 0:11:37Shari's neighbour Ramona says many white people here blame Hispanics
0:11:37 > 0:11:39for taking the jobs.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42Hispanics will work for less money, you know, because they will live
0:11:42 > 0:11:43more people in one house.
0:11:43 > 0:11:46Normally, white people don't do that, you know what I mean?
0:11:46 > 0:11:48It's not really normal.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51Right, so some people feel that their jobs
0:11:51 > 0:11:54are being taken away.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56Right because they can undercut the price, uh-huh.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59The Hispanic population has overwhelmed our state,
0:11:59 > 0:12:01overwhelmed our jobs, overwhelmed our education,
0:12:01 > 0:12:05overwhelmed all of our social services that we put in place.
0:12:05 > 0:12:07They say 10 million.
0:12:07 > 0:12:09It's more like 20 million.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11They were here illegally.
0:12:11 > 0:12:13They don't stand in line.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15They don't wait.
0:12:15 > 0:12:18They have taken the jobs.
0:12:18 > 0:12:23There's an estimated eight million illegal workers in America today.
0:12:23 > 0:12:26They help drive the economy.
0:12:26 > 0:12:30The head of the local Democrats, an Hispanic immigrant herself,
0:12:30 > 0:12:34thinks America needs a more measured approach.
0:12:34 > 0:12:40I don't see the average American working in fields, picking produce.
0:12:40 > 0:12:45Our economy would have a huge impact, if other workers
0:12:45 > 0:12:49were having to be brought in to complete the jobs that
0:12:49 > 0:12:53undocumenteds were doing.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56But Donald Trump's message, that illegals take jobs,
0:12:56 > 0:13:03is music here to white Americans, who feel undercut, dispossessed.
0:13:03 > 0:13:09Our country needs a truly great leader and we need
0:13:09 > 0:13:16a truly great leader now.
0:13:16 > 0:13:21Over the years, Bakersfield's racial make-up has changed dramatically,
0:13:21 > 0:13:26but it's always been deeply divided.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28We're going to take you across the bridge.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30This is the bridge right here.
0:13:30 > 0:13:32So this bridge divides...
0:13:32 > 0:13:35Bakersfield and Oildale and in my era, a big divide,
0:13:35 > 0:13:38no blacks across that bridge after dark.
0:13:38 > 0:13:42They all had to get their butts back over.
0:13:42 > 0:13:45Oildale, the rough side of Bakersfield, used to be known
0:13:45 > 0:13:48as a sunset town.
0:13:48 > 0:13:52Unless you were white, you weren't welcome after dark.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55We ran them out.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57Ran black people out?
0:13:57 > 0:13:59Throw stuff at their cars, whatever.
0:13:59 > 0:14:01We ran them out of Oildale at night.
0:14:01 > 0:14:04They looked so different from us, we don't like them.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06So were there any black people?
0:14:06 > 0:14:07No, none.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10100% white.
0:14:10 > 0:14:11My dad bought that house.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14Now they've turned this into public housing.
0:14:14 > 0:14:17They had to put that fence up just to keep it halfway safe.
0:14:17 > 0:14:19There's some black people in there, they're all OK, they're
0:14:19 > 0:14:21just on welfare.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23If they catch you walking by yourself, and there's two
0:14:23 > 0:14:29of them and one of you, anything could happen.
0:14:29 > 0:14:31Across the road from where David was born, we met Shawana
0:14:31 > 0:14:33an unemployed mother.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36Recently, she says, a group of white racist thugs
0:14:36 > 0:14:39turned up on her street.
0:14:39 > 0:14:45It was like 10 to 11 cars, white people all over here for just
0:14:45 > 0:14:47a handful of black people.
0:14:47 > 0:14:49What were they trying to do?
0:14:49 > 0:14:52Fight.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54They had bats, cans.
0:14:54 > 0:14:56Like baseball bats?
0:14:56 > 0:14:57Uh-huh.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00What were they saying?
0:15:00 > 0:15:03Not or; that's the key word around here, not or, monkey...
0:15:03 > 0:15:09It's ridiculous.
0:15:11 > 0:15:15Oildale seems a bleak place to fight over.
0:15:15 > 0:15:20But it's fertile ground for extremism.
0:15:20 > 0:15:22This always happens.
0:15:22 > 0:15:28Today is one of the cooler days, but Friday, don't be out.
0:15:28 > 0:15:29What happened on Friday?
0:15:30 > 0:15:31If you come out Friday nights, there's a possibility
0:15:31 > 0:15:34that you'll get jumped.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37Shawanna says she decided to quit waitressing after a white customer
0:15:37 > 0:15:40complained she was black.
0:15:41 > 0:15:43And your children; has it affected your children?
0:15:44 > 0:15:46They get called neck is at school.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49How do you live like this?
0:15:49 > 0:15:50Why don't you move?
0:15:50 > 0:15:52Well, I'm in a process of moving but it's hard to relocate,
0:15:52 > 0:16:00you know, it's hard.
0:16:00 > 0:16:06I went to the university in nearby San Bernardino, to meet Brian Levin.
0:16:06 > 0:16:11And I need your assignment by the end of class...
0:16:11 > 0:16:16He's studying the effects of seismic shifts in America's racial make-up.
0:16:16 > 0:16:20One of the things what we are seeing today, for instance 26% of Americans
0:16:20 > 0:16:25are either immigrants or the children of immigrants.
0:16:25 > 0:16:30Over the last half century, 59 million immigrants, many Mexican,
0:16:30 > 0:16:33have changed the face of America.
0:16:33 > 0:16:37In 40 years, white people may be a minority.
0:16:37 > 0:16:42This demographic change has caused fear.
0:16:42 > 0:16:47Not only fear because they believe that immigrants are causing issues
0:16:47 > 0:16:50with regard to resources, but issues with regard to what's
0:16:50 > 0:16:58happening to our cultural heritage and the colour of our country.
0:16:58 > 0:17:02Donald Trump's message is simple and alluring.
0:17:02 > 0:17:04Put America first.
0:17:05 > 0:17:14The American Dream is dead.
0:17:14 > 0:17:19But if I get elected President, I will bring it back bigger,
0:17:19 > 0:17:24and better and stronger than ever before and we will make
0:17:24 > 0:17:30America great again.
0:17:31 > 0:17:35Donald Trump's campaign tactics are stoking division.
0:17:35 > 0:17:37The American Dream was never about a country tearing
0:17:37 > 0:17:44itself up over race.
0:17:44 > 0:17:47In the last fortnight, eight policemen have been killed
0:17:47 > 0:17:57following the recent police shootings of two black men.
0:17:58 > 0:18:02This year in America, police have killed over 200 black
0:18:02 > 0:18:08and Hispanic people.
0:18:08 > 0:18:12By night, Bakersfield is alive with the sound of sirens.
0:18:18 > 0:18:20Police across Kern County killed 13 people last year.
0:18:20 > 0:18:24More per head than any other county in the US.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27What did you name him?
0:18:27 > 0:18:31This is Ronnie Ledesma - a local 39-year-old oil worker -
0:18:31 > 0:18:34and a new granddad.
0:18:34 > 0:18:38Back up, back up!
0:18:38 > 0:18:42He's screaming, he's screaming just for his life.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45Joseph Gomez is his son-in-law.
0:18:45 > 0:18:48Ronnie was arrested - presumed drunk.
0:18:48 > 0:18:55Then struck repeatedly with a baton on his body and head.
0:18:55 > 0:19:02Put your hands behind your back.
0:19:02 > 0:19:05Three officers held him down while the police dog savaged him.
0:19:06 > 0:19:09He's obviously been mauled on by the canine which he's,
0:19:09 > 0:19:12the officer's allowing him enough room on the rope to continue
0:19:12 > 0:19:14and he's just simply trying to get away from the dog,
0:19:14 > 0:19:20he's simply trying to avoid it.
0:19:20 > 0:19:21Quit resisting, do not kick the deputies again.
0:19:22 > 0:19:23They shout out these, stop resisting, stop resisting,
0:19:24 > 0:19:25and he's not resisting, he's just, he's hurting,
0:19:26 > 0:19:30he's in pain.
0:19:31 > 0:19:33Joseph Gomez believes racist attitudes amongst local police means
0:19:34 > 0:19:37Hispanics are targeted.
0:19:38 > 0:19:42I would say there is racists within it, I wouldn't say everybody,
0:19:43 > 0:19:46but I know there is coz you feel it, it's very evident here,
0:19:46 > 0:19:48it's very evident.
0:19:48 > 0:19:49It's dark over here.
0:19:49 > 0:19:51It's dark.
0:19:51 > 0:19:55Ronnie Ledesma died eight days after his beating.
0:19:55 > 0:20:01Police say he "appeared to be under the influence of alcohol and drugs"
0:20:01 > 0:20:06and physical force was necessary because he "became combative".
0:20:06 > 0:20:08His death was ruled accidental.
0:20:09 > 0:20:14But his family is taking legal action against the police.
0:20:15 > 0:20:19At David's local cafe most people we spoke to want tough policing.
0:20:20 > 0:20:21Kern County Police have the highest number of killings of anywhere
0:20:22 > 0:20:24in the United States so is that a...
0:20:24 > 0:20:25Go cops.
0:20:25 > 0:20:25I love it.
0:20:26 > 0:20:26What do you think of that, Steve?
0:20:26 > 0:20:27Go cops.
0:20:27 > 0:20:28Go cops.
0:20:29 > 0:20:30But you don't have any problem with that...
0:20:30 > 0:20:31None whatsoever.
0:20:31 > 0:20:32..number of police killings?
0:20:32 > 0:20:34It could be 500, I wish it was higher.
0:20:35 > 0:20:37David was not alone in his views.
0:20:38 > 0:20:43I'm an American man and Americans over the centuries we don't tolerate
0:20:45 > 0:20:46BS from anybody.
0:20:46 > 0:20:47That's right.
0:20:47 > 0:20:48It's the name of the game for America.
0:20:48 > 0:20:51If you're gonna mess with us, you're gonna get messed back.
0:20:52 > 0:20:53We don't know whether these people are guilty or innocent
0:20:53 > 0:20:55until it's too late.
0:20:55 > 0:20:56I don't know, but you can ask him...
0:20:56 > 0:20:57Isn't that a bit of a problem?
0:20:57 > 0:21:01If a man pulls a gun on you, you're trained to take care of him.
0:21:01 > 0:21:04Tommy, a retired local police officer, was
0:21:05 > 0:21:07a lone voice of dissent.
0:21:08 > 0:21:10I know of several shootings here in Kern County
0:21:10 > 0:21:11that absolutely stink.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14So you think there's a problem?
0:21:14 > 0:21:16Yeah, absolutely, and they're cleared constantly.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18Most of them have been non-whites?
0:21:19 > 0:21:22Well, that's because they do most of the crime.
0:21:22 > 0:21:25When you've got a tonne of them out there doing the crime,
0:21:25 > 0:21:27sure their numbers are going to be higher because that's
0:21:28 > 0:21:31what they're doing.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33Donald Trump has stoked this perception.
0:21:34 > 0:21:37He retweeted an inflammatory and inaccurate claim.
0:21:38 > 0:21:42That 81% of white people are murdered by black people.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45He is tweeting a figure that says that 81% of whites are killed
0:21:46 > 0:21:49by blacks, it's not true, it's completely a wrong figure.
0:21:49 > 0:21:50OK, so it's not 81, so it's 77, so it's 65, so it's 40,
0:21:51 > 0:21:59the idea is that black people commit a lot of crimes.
0:21:59 > 0:22:04In fact, FBI figures show most whites are killed by whites.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07But David and his friends weren't in the mood to let statistics get
0:22:07 > 0:22:12in the way of their belief that black people and immigrants
0:22:12 > 0:22:15are responsible for high crime levels.
0:22:15 > 0:22:19More immigrants have not meant more crime.
0:22:19 > 0:22:26We have had a sustained decline in both property and violent crime
0:22:26 > 0:22:30from 1990 into today, but it doesn't matter because facts
0:22:30 > 0:22:36will not reverberate as much as fear and emotion.
0:22:37 > 0:22:42Donald Trump has said he likes to plays to people's fantasies.
0:22:42 > 0:22:46He's selling himself as America's strongman.
0:22:46 > 0:22:50I am sick of fair and reasonable.
0:22:50 > 0:22:51I want somebody to take the bull by the horns and at least attempt
0:22:51 > 0:22:52to do something.
0:22:53 > 0:22:54Whether he can get it done or not, that's a different story.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57He's a salesman.
0:22:57 > 0:23:01I mean, he's a businessman.
0:23:01 > 0:23:05He's selling the idea of what folks wanna hear and what they wanna see.
0:23:05 > 0:23:09And many Americans want to see a tough line on Islamist terror.
0:23:10 > 0:23:14Trump has one.
0:23:15 > 0:23:19Donald J Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown
0:23:19 > 0:23:21of Muslims entering the United States until our
0:23:21 > 0:23:28country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37It was a calculated move.
0:23:37 > 0:23:41Coming soon after the terror attack not far from Bakersfield,
0:23:41 > 0:23:43in San Bernardino.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46Here 14 people were killed when a local couple
0:23:46 > 0:23:54of Pakistani descent opened fire in an office party.
0:23:55 > 0:23:57Our plan was to make it in three phases.
0:23:58 > 0:24:01First it's the community centre, then we'll build the mosque,
0:24:01 > 0:24:04then the school.
0:24:04 > 0:24:07Saif Ahmed wants to build a large new mosque in Bakersfield
0:24:07 > 0:24:09for the Muslims here.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11We've always found when we build a mosque, pretty soon
0:24:11 > 0:24:13we run out of space.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16There's local resistance.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20Saif no longer feels welcome here.
0:24:20 > 0:24:23When I came to this country in 1978, I was so impressed how
0:24:23 > 0:24:31the minorities were treated, how everybody was treating us.
0:24:31 > 0:24:34Trump has more recently said the ban would apply only to Muslims
0:24:35 > 0:24:40from countries with terrorist ties.
0:24:40 > 0:24:44But that hasn't made Saif feel any more secure.
0:24:44 > 0:24:51There is more animosity now as compared to after 9/11
0:24:51 > 0:24:55because now the presidential candidate, people on TV are talking
0:24:56 > 0:24:57anti-Muslims and so people think that's the right thing to do.
0:24:58 > 0:25:01Now they look at you as if, you know, you belong to a religion
0:25:01 > 0:25:07which is mostly terrorists.
0:25:07 > 0:25:11To lay people like me, Muslims have a certain look
0:25:12 > 0:25:13and I don't know that that's right, I just feel like OK,
0:25:14 > 0:25:16I don't like that person, you know.
0:25:16 > 0:25:19I would just stop the whole thing long enough to figure out
0:25:19 > 0:25:23what we got because if we save one person's life, American's life,
0:25:24 > 0:25:28it's worth stopping everybody from coming in.
0:25:30 > 0:25:31What Trump has said is, it's the other, these people
0:25:31 > 0:25:37who are not quite Americans, indeed possible enemies of America.
0:25:37 > 0:25:40Mexicans who are rapists and criminals and maybe some good
0:25:41 > 0:25:49people, or Muslims who, gee, Islam hates us.
0:25:50 > 0:25:54What Donald Trump has created is an authoritative leadership brand
0:25:55 > 0:25:58that will say that the other is not going to have sway over
0:25:58 > 0:26:02this country anymore.
0:26:03 > 0:26:06In May, David finally got to see the man who's shocked much
0:26:06 > 0:26:10of America, and inspired the rest.
0:26:10 > 0:26:12We're gonna keep winning, winning, winning and we're gonna make
0:26:13 > 0:26:19America great again!
0:26:21 > 0:26:24Many of Donald Trump's core supporters are white,
0:26:24 > 0:26:27low income, less educated.
0:26:27 > 0:26:31Not all have views as extreme as David's.
0:26:31 > 0:26:36But they're all fired up by Trump's campaign.
0:26:36 > 0:26:40I will gladly accept the mantle of anger.
0:26:40 > 0:26:43Illegal immigration is beyond belief.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46Our country is being run by incompetent people -
0:26:47 > 0:26:52and ,yes, I am angry.
0:26:52 > 0:26:55The question now - can Donald Trump take
0:26:55 > 0:26:58the White House?
0:26:59 > 0:27:00Donald Trump is going to have a difficult time winning key
0:27:01 > 0:27:03states with large Latino and immigrant populations
0:27:03 > 0:27:06like California, but here's the thing.
0:27:06 > 0:27:08If God forbid there's a terrorist attack or some kind of catalytic
0:27:09 > 0:27:12event that feeds into these fears, people are gonna vote with emotion
0:27:12 > 0:27:20and their gut and not with their head and policies.
0:27:21 > 0:27:25America has never seen a candidate quite like this.
0:27:25 > 0:27:28Many Republicans, worried they could lose November's election,
0:27:29 > 0:27:33want him to tone down his message.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36Politics can turn on a dime, you know, so he's still running
0:27:36 > 0:27:43and if or when he is the candidate to run for President,
0:27:44 > 0:27:48I think we'll see a new Trump, that's what I'm hoping for.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51But Donald Trump has built an entire movement on the raw
0:27:52 > 0:27:55emotions of millions.
0:27:55 > 0:28:01He speaks to their fears, directs their frustration.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05I think Donald Trump opened up Pandora's Box to what's been hidden
0:28:06 > 0:28:10with all the racism and hatred that's been in the United States.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13I figured they gave him, like, a free card to go
0:28:13 > 0:28:17ahead and be racist.
0:28:18 > 0:28:22The Trump phenomenon, I realised in Bakersfield,
0:28:22 > 0:28:25is not so much about the man, it's about the anger and resentment
0:28:25 > 0:28:30of millions that now has a voice.
0:28:30 > 0:28:33I've never seen my country so fearful and divided.