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Grim!

The rest of the article says that on most other cultural issues US right wingers are to the right of UK ones, apart from trans issues (everyone agrees fuck them trannies).

Labour completely failed to make a positive case for immigration, instead pandering to the far right. So I'm not surprised a lot of Labour voters absorbed that view.

On this specific point though, immigration literally is part of US identity in a way that isn't as true for the UK.

Sure, I agree that that's true and I think that's probably at the root of this difference.

While that might be true, UK is very racially diverse with close to 20% non-white people (highest among western Europe), which is about the same as US in 1980 And don't forget that their idea of "foreigners" often includes native-born non-white ppl, which UK has a lot of