I can't imagine how any of those voters could have seen it any other way.But of course you can't, my little empty fedora! Imagination has never been your long suit, so no one is surprised, or thinks too much less of you, when it fails you on this occasion.
cordially,
(Incidentally, the 1493 "measure of Christian tolerance" to which I alluded in an earlier post—a repudiation of the "Muslim oppression" under which the put-upon Spanish had lived for centuries—was the expulsion of the Jews. But this element is not convenient, and hence not germane, to a bot's cartoon view of history.)