How will an influx of new species affect slightly xenophobic democracies?

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"That is why I, Gorton Colu, have founded the Anti-Alien League. The time has come for action! We cannot sit idly by while aliens blight our glorious planet!"
--Gorton Colu, Knights of The Old Republic


Apologies in advance if this was asked and answered somewhere else, but I'm curious how less... autocratic forms of government will deal with the alien inhabitants of newly colonized or conquered worlds. Of course, this is mostly assuming those aliens would still be guaranteed constitutional rights and possibly the ability to vote.

Would the alien POPS cause a series of "civil rights movement" type events? Would there be a general fear from the player's species being replaced by a swiftly growing alien minority? Perhaps more militaristic and radically xenophobic parties can gain popularity as your own species fears losing its position of power? Conversely, could reactionaries emerge if your civilization discovers a way to make breeding between your species and another (forming a new subspecies) possible?

I only ask because I can't imagine my future military democracy would take kindly to "xenos" upsetting the status quo while conversely not wanting to devote more military resources to keep them in line (a la the Spartans)
 
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I expect there will be something like Vicky 2's suffrage laws.
 
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Do not suffer the xenos the witch or the heretic.

@Cuthuthulu lol 10/10 :D
 
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@Witty Name Here I'm guessing POPs with high Xenophobia will be more likely to rebel and less productive if they share planets with species from other Phenotypes (e.g. Mollusk, Mammalian, etc). Essentially, it works like foreign cultures and religions in CK2 and EU4.

On the flip side - we know from screenshots that Xenophobic empires have an easier time fabricating claims on empires belonging to other Phenotypes, and their POPs have higher alien slavery tolerance. So that makes up for the additional penalties.

As for how Xenophobia affects democratic empires. Slaves can't vote ;)

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Even the most Xenophodic Empire would be constant flux, and IMO, a democracy that is selective about who gets to vote is a democracy in name only
 
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Most "democracies" are actually republics....
To an extent, but republics are similar. The difference is that we vote for people to vote for us. So voting for who represents us is democratic. It also depends on the level of goverment, with local community governments being more of a democracy.

But even then, by his standard a democracy has never existed in the history of man.
 
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I don't know, take a look at what's going on in Europe right now?

Yes I went there.

Most "democracies" are actually republics....

This statement makes about as much sense as "Most 'cars' are actually sedans".
 
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