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Let's start with the title of your book — what is a Whitopia, exactly? It's more than just a place where a lot of white people happen to live. Absolutely. A Whitopia has three things. First, it has posted more 6% population growth since 2000. The second thing is that the majority of that growth — upwards of 90% — comes from white migrants. The third thing a Whitopia has is an ineffable social charm — a pleasant look and feel. You say many Whitopias offer a high quality of life, and tend to perform well on those "Best Places...

If that's correct, I can't think events in 2009 will do anything to diminish the flow. What I wonder is: Where did those 2 million go? Britons, Canadians, Europeans, etc, who seek "greener pastures" generally wind up in the U.S. For most of us immigrants, this is the last stop on the tour: There's nowhere else to go. So where on the planet do a couple of million Americans go to find somewhere "greener"?

I left the United States in May to celebrate the wedding of my firstborn son, and decided to remain in Israel. So from time to time I'll post an anecdote about my experiences in the holy land. Here's the first: Settlers of Juda and Shomron and soldiers on leave carry guns everywhere. They're allowed to bring their pieces into highly secure areas, and I'm talking M16s with grenade launchers mounted under the barrels. One such secure place, with metal detectors, X-ray scanners and ID checks at the doors, is the Tachana Merkazit in Jerusalem, or Central Bus Terminal. I brought...

I've been looking at the possibility of retirement abroad for some time, so I'm on several e-mailing lists. I've been struck by how quickly a couple of these international agencies have pointed to the financial crisis as a marketing pitch. They're focusing on retirees and near-retirees hit hard by the crisis and encouraging us to consider a much more affordable retirement abroad. Here's the most interesting I've found so far (they even have a price list of common items): http://serenity21.com/ http://serenity21.typepad.com/serenity_real_estate/2008/10/to-north-americ.html http://serenity21.com/why_nicaragua.html http://serenity21.com/pricelist.html Very intriguing. I think there's going to be a big and growing market for them to cater...

The Spanish daily El Pais has given credence to rumors that have been sweeping Havana for days that Cuban authorities are about to lift requirements for their citizens to get exit visas to leave the Communist-ruled island. The newspaper quotes an unidentified senior Cuban official as saying Cubans soon will be free to travel without government permission. In light of U.S. policy that allows most Cubans who reach dry land to stay in the country, revocation of Cuba's self-imposed barriers to travel could unleash a massive wave of immigrants headed for southern Florida if young workers eager for more opportunity...

Emigration soars as Britons desert the UK By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor Last Updated: 6:56pm GMT 15/11/2007 Britain is experiencing the greatest exodus of its own nationals in recent history while immigration is at unprecedented levels, new figures show. Last year, 207,000 British citizens - one every three minutes - left the country while 510,000 foreigners arrived to stay for a year or more. The majority of people leaving the UK go to New Zealand, France, Spain or Australia The British made up more than half of the 400,000 moving abroad - yet only 14 per cent of immigrants...

Who says the MSM only report bad news? An online ABC News story reports that emigration from the US to Canada has increased dramatically . . . and that the departees are largely liberals. Hollywood stars never get around to making good on their threats to leave. But many everyday liberal folks are carrying through on their plans. According to the article: The number of U.S. citizens who moved to Canada last year hit a 30-year high, with a 20 percent increase over the previous year and almost double the number who moved in 2000.The current increase is fueled largely...

UK Citizens Abandoning the UK in Greater Numbers July 25, 2007 - Press Dispensary - Increasing numbers of people are taking the decision to move overseas as a result of the UK’s current immigration policy, according to www.globalvisas.com, a specialist immigration consultancy that provides immigration advice and visa services. As numbers of immigrants to the UK from the new European Union Accession states continue to grow, more and more people in the UK are choosing to take their experience and skills overseas. The consultancy caters for immigrants to the UK as well as British people who wish to emigrate to...

Castro’s government has complained that the United States has fallen behind in the number of visas allotted for Cubans, suggesting this was a deliberate attempt by the Bush administration to cause trouble for the Cuban nation. The U.S. failure was labeled ''grave and unjustifiable'' according to a statement published in the Communist Party’s Granma newspaper. “The U.S. negligence condemns Cubans to continued lives of poverty and oppression on this island,” the statement read. “An inadequate number of visas distributed in a timely manner induces many to risk their lives in leaky boats in an attempt to reach America. This is...

Alarmed by the growing number of Palestinians who are emigrating from the Palestinian territories, the Palestinian Authority's mufti has issued a fatwa [religious decree] forbidding Muslims to leave. Sources in the PA Foreign Ministry told The Jerusalem Post that some 10,000 Palestinians have filed requests to emigrate from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the year. They said the requests had been approved. "Every day we hear about hundreds of Palestinians who file requests for emigration with different consulates and diplomatic missions," the sources said. "According to our statistics, there are at least 45,000 emigration...

Each year Mexicans in the United States send billions of dollars in remittances back to Mexico. In 2006, Mexicans working north of the border sent back US$23 billion. Remittances have become (after petroleum) the second highest legal source of income for Mexico. And that’s one of several reasons why Mexican leaders don’t want emigration to end. But are these billions of dollars really helping Mexico? You might think so, but if you look at the Mexican regions that receive high levels of remittances, they’re not exactly booming economically. Take for example Michoacan, President Felipe Calderon’s home state. That state is...

Not funny, but it struck home Rod Liddle Apparently almost a million British citizens have left the country since 2000, to live somewhere else. Last year, according to the Office for National Statistics, 380,000 people left Britain, of whom about 200,000 were British citizens. At the same time, though, 565,000 immigrants arrived in Britain, the overwhelming majority from the Indian subcontinent (largely Pakistan and Bangladesh). These facts were reported as if they were entirely unrelated. Nobody dared to venture that there was perhaps a very direct and even causal relationship between the record numbers of British people leaving the country...

Faced with poor job prospects, high taxes and an intrusive bureaucracy, more and more Germans are choosing to emigrate. Most of those who leave, though, are highly qualified -- which could mean devastating economic consequences. They are fed up, truly fed up. Fed up with the constant bickering over the costs of wage benefits, social reforms, elimination of subsidies, store closing hours and all the other symbols of a country stuck in bureaucratic and legislative gridlock. They are tired of living in country where landing a job is like playing the lottery, a country where not even half of citizens...

AMSTERDAM ? In the first nine months of this year, almost 100,000 people left the Netherlands to settle elsewhere, 12,000 more than the same period last year. About half of the emigrants were Dutch natives, the national statistics office CBS said on Friday. If the trend continues, more than 130,000 people will have left the country by the end of this year. For the third successive year, the number of emigrants substantially outnumbers immigrants, the CBS said. The net effect means the Dutch population was reduced in the 2004-06 period by 75,000. In the preceding three years, there was a...

As a long-time fan of Mark Steyn I looked forward to reading this interview with him out of Human Events, just as I have long-anticipated his book America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It. One of Steyn's consistant themes over the past few years is a warning that Europe was not merely the sick patient of the West - that she was actively transitioning from life unto death, and death will bring no victory, only only backward momentum: Basically the European nations are dying and the populations in them are turning into relatively hostile Muslim populations,...

Johannesburg - One million white South Africans - almost a fifth - have left the country in the past ten years. This figure was released last week in a report from the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR). Frans Cronjé, who compiled the report, said it was especially crime and affirmative action which had driven a fifth of South Africa's white population out of the country. He did an analysis of Statistics South Africa's Household Surveys between 1995 and 2005, emigration figures and other reliable estimates on population numbers. Cronjé said the results left himself and his colleagues dumbfounded....

Canadian Border "Guards" Flee Posts After Security Scare That's weird because I thought guards were there specifically in the event there was a security threat. Silly me. Guards walk off job at four B.C. border crossings Canadian border guards at four crossings in the Lower Mainland of B.C. have walked off the job in response to a security scare. CTV Vancouver reported Sunday night that lineups at four crossings into Canada are massive. Gary Barndt reported from the station's helicopter that the lineups appeared to be several kilometres long at one crossing...This was the first time she could recall all...

BRUSSELS, Sept 22, 2006 (AFP) - French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie on Friday said that Europe must help African nations deal with its conflicts in order to prevent millions of Africans fleeing the continent to survive. "Crises in Africa, if they become widespread with massacres and genocides, will one day have the inevitable result of pushing five, six, seven million Africans, or maybe more, to the nearest continent in order to survive," she said in a speech at Belgium's Royal Military School. Alliot-Marie stressed that Europe must stand united in helping African countries deal with their crises themselves, notably by...

U.S. Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) says the U.S. should be giving more foreign aid to Mexico. "Emigrating to the U.S. is expensive," Cuellar told attendees during a meeting of the International Good Neighbor Council. "Many Mexicans are too poor to afford travel expenses. Coyotes charge hundreds of dollars per person to smuggle them into America." "I would like to see the $2-$8 billion some say would be the cost of a security wall to be handed over to the Mexican government so they can improve their transportation system," said Cuellar. "That should help reduce emigration costs for most entering America."

JOAQUIN AMARO, Mexico - Decades ago, before massive waves of young men fled north, Pedro Avila Salamanca helped his father harvest corn and fatten pigs. He learned to write his name in a one-room schoolhouse. Sometimes, he rode to town on a donkey. It's all a distant memory now. Everywhere abandoned houses are crumbling. The towns are shrinking. And Avila, 89, who wears donated clothes and lives on the meager checks his daughters send from the United States, can't remember the last time he ate meat. "What would I buy it with?" he asked. Avila is a part of the...

On Saturday night I ventured out to Manchester, N.H., to see New Mexico Governor Richardson, probable contender for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, give the keynote speech at a fundraiser for the state legislature's minority caucus. As I sat at a corner table in the small Mexican restaurant, the room began to take on the atmosphere of a foreign airport. If Richardson was my flight, he was either delayed or cancelled. All the announcements were in Spanish. Though varying in length and urgency, each bulletin had a shared characteristic: "Bill Richardson" were the only two words I could pick out...

The influx of foreigners to New York and its suburbs and the continuing exodus of non-Hispanic whites to other parts of the country have transformed the face of metropolitan New York so profoundly that whites will constitute a minority of the region's population within a few years, demographers say. The shift would make New York the first large metropolitan area outside the South and West in which whites do not make up a majority, according to an analysis of 2004 Census estimates by the Brookings Institution that was released yesterday. The analysis also reveals a historic reversal: For the first...

THE HAGUE, 11/02/06 - More and more people are leaving the Netherlands. As the birth rate is also falling, population growth in 2005 was as a result the lowest since 1900, according to data released Friday by the Central Bureau for Statistics (CBS). Last year, 121,000 Dutch people emigrated abroad, compared with 110,000 a year earlier. The number of immigrants was much lower, unchanged from 2004 at 94,000. Among these, the numbers from traditional immigration countries such as Turkey and Morocco shrank considerably. Half of the emigrants were born in the Netherlands. Among these, more and more emigrate to countries...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad isn't the first bloody-minded tyrant to propose that Jews just go away, elsewhere, even to Alaska. In his day Hitler tauntingly invited the world's democracies to take his Jews, if they were so concerned about them. He knew that for all their high-minded rhetoric, these countries wouldn't accept his provocative challenge. After 1938's Anschluss, their representatives met in Evian-les-Bains, on Lake Geneva's French shore, to decide what to do with Nazism's desperate victims, pounding on their gates in search of asylum. They never even called them...

...Why so many did undertake it is one of the questions that the museum, known in German as Auswanderer Haus, or Emigration House, which opened in this busy port city a few weeks ago, is intended to answer. The spacious, modern building, framed in latticed wood, overlooks Bremerhaven's Old Port, created in 1837 in large part to take advantage of the wave of emigration to America that began around then.... If the Ellis Island Immigration Museum in New York Harbor tells the story of arrivals, the museum in Bremerhaven tells the story at the opposite end of the experience: the...

AMSTERDAM — About 20,000 Dutch people have serious plans to emigrate permanently, demographic research institute NIDI said on Wednesday. In general, those with serious plans to emigrate have at least a diploma from upper secondary vocational education (MBO) and are aged between 35 and 44. They often earn a good income. "Just" 2 percent of the Dutch population aged 15 or older is thinking of emigrating in the future, while about one in 10 of this group has serious plans. This means, from an adult population of 13.2 million, some 250,000 are thinking of emigrating and about 20,000 have serious...

Polish traditions remain even as emigration ebbs Monday, March 07, 2005 By LORI STABILE lstabile@repub.com When Frederick J. Tenczar was growing up, there were 10 small Polish markets in Palmer. "We're the last one," said Tenczar, owner of Tenczar's Food Town in the Three Rivers section of town. "Automobiles changed everything around. People used to stay in town. We all had a favorite market to go to." At his small grocery store, customers may buy staples such as cereal and bread, but can also find homemade Polish dishes such as kielbasa, kapusta and pierogi. Tenczar works 60 hours a week...

“Man and Woman”, “Wife”, “Husband”, “Widow”, “Widower” Banished From all Ontario Law Terms, when referring to spouses, are banned from all government programs, services, documentsToronto, February 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With the obscenely rapid, three-day introduction and passage of its same-sex “marriage” Bill 171, the Ontario government has advanced a revolutionary change in the way all laws and government programs and institutions refer to marriage and married persons. Everything referring to spouses must now be gender neutral. No longer can a married couple be referred to as “husband and wife” or “man and woman”. The terms “Widow” and “widower” are...

AMSTERDAM - Paul Hiltemann had already noticed a darkening mood in the Netherlands. He runs an agency for people wanting to emigrate and his client list had surged. But he was still taken aback in November when a Dutch filmmaker was shot and his throat was slit, execution style, on an Amsterdam street. In the weeks that followed, Mr. Hiltemann was inundated by e-mail messages and telephone calls. "There was a big panic," he said, "a flood of people saying they wanted to leave the country." Leave this stable and prosperous corner of Europe? Leave this land with its generous...

Lately the Iowa Legislature has been trying to find a way to solve a basic problem: how to keep young people from leaving the state. Right now, Iowa's "brain drain" is second only to North Dakota's. The Legislature is toying with a simple idea, getting rid of state income tax for everyone under 30. This proposal was front-page news in California, where most of Iowa moved in the 1960's. Let me translate the economics of this plan. The State Legislature proposes to offer every young tax-paying Iowan a large delivery pizza - or its cash equivalent, about $12 - every...

Kevin P. Casey for The New York Times "The U.S. seems to be leading the pack as the world spirals down," said Melanie Redman, who hopes to move to Toronto. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 4 - Christopher Key knows exactly what he would be giving up if he left Bellingham, Wash. "It's the sort of place Norman Rockwell would paint, where everyone watches out for everyone else and we have block parties every year," said Mr. Key, a 56-year-old Vietnam War veteran and former magazine editor who lists Francis Scott Key among his ancestors. But leave it he intends...

"Usurpers" by Steven PlautDecember 13, 2004 So, let us see if we have this straight. The anti-Zionists claim that the Jews have no right to the land of Israel because before Israel was re-created in 1948, it had been almost 1,900 years since the last time the Jews exercised sovereignty over the Land of Israel. And the anti-Zionists claim that it is absurd to argue that anyone still has rights to land that was last governed with sovereignty 1,900 years ago. And on what basis do they argue that the Arabs have some legitimate claim to these same lands? On...

The clever satire below was written by Joe Blundo, and appeared on theKCTV 5 Discussion website. Thanks to Leslie Morris of Birmingham, who first shared it with us. **** The flood of American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has intensified in the past week, sparking calls for increased patrols to stop the illegal immigration. The re-election of President Bush is prompting the exodus among left-leaning citizens who fear they'll soon be required to hunt, pray and agree with Bill O'Reilly. Canadian border farmers say it's not uncommon to see dozens of sociology professors, animal-rights activists and Unitarians crossing...

Liberals took their historic defeat in the 2004 elections quite well. They could have reacted with bitterness, rancor and hysteria. Instead they were gracious, and engaged in thoughtful introspection. I’m kidding. Actually, liberals behaved predictably. They’ve spent the past week sneering at red-state residents – remarking on the alleged poverty, stupidity and plain gullibility of Bush country (combined with neo-Marxist cant about how capitalists use faith appeals to control the masses). The more intrepid among them are talking about emigrating to Canada. The more delusional are toying with the idea of secession. Reuters tells us that the day after the...

WELLINGTON (AFP) - Enquiries from Americans wanting to move to New Zealand have skyrocketed since George W. Bush was reelected president of the United States. The Immigration Service website had 10,300 hits from the United States the day after the election, compared to the daily norm of 2,500. Thousands of North Americans have migrated to New Zealand in recent years -- attracted by the country's small population, clean, green image of bush-clad mountains, and isolation from world trouble spots -- but the number now looks set to soar. Phones at the Immigration Service offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco and...

Disillusioned Americans eye New Zealand's alternative bush Fri Nov 5,10:44 PM ET U.S. National - AFP WELLINGTON (AFP) - Enquiries from Americans wanting to move to New Zealand have skyrocketed since George W. Bush was reelected president of the United States. The Immigration Service website had 10,300 hits from the United States the day after the election, compared to the daily norm of 2,500. Thousands of North Americans have migrated to New Zealand in recent years -- attracted by the country's small population, clean, green image of bush-clad mountains, and isolation from world trouble spots -- but the number now...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The number of U.S. citizens visiting Canada's main immigration Web site has shot up six-fold as Americans flirt with the idea of abandoning their homeland after President George W. Bush's election win this week. "When we looked at the first day after the election, November 3, our Web site hit a new high, almost double the previous record high," immigration ministry spokeswoman Maria Iadinardi said on Friday. On an average day some 20,000 people in the United States log onto the Web site, www.cic.gc.ca -- a figure which rocketed to 115,016 on Wednesday. The number of U.S....

LAST YEAR THERE were just four new mothers in a population of 1,600. That compares with 70 babies born in 1970, when Laviano had around 3,000 residents.        In a bid to reverse the trend, Mayor Rocco Falivena is digging deep into town coffers and offering couples 10,000 euros ($11,900) for every newborn baby.        “It’s a lot of money, but this is our top priority,” said Falivena. “We are talking about the very survival of our town.”        Laviano is not alone in its fight for life. Scores of towns the length...

DENVER -- Yusuf Hussain, after spending seven years in Colorado, packed up his three-bedroom house in Littleton last week in search of a better life. He says he will find it in Pakistan. The 39-year-old executive came here from Pakistan just as the U.S. tech economy was taking off in 1996. Today, he is being lured back by what he can't find here: Jobs, wealth and economic activity. Many foreign nationals no longer view America as the land of opportunity. Economists, businesspeople and other experts say growing numbers of immigrants are moving back to their home countries of Pakistan, India,...

A prestigious Mexican national advisory board on the census, the "Consejo Nacional de Población", has just released a study that says that 17 million Mexicans have emigrated out of Mexico in 40 years. The study says that the majority of the those emigrating did so to the USA where 9.5 million of these now reside. The study says that if it was not for those emigrating, the total population of Mexico would be 120 million. The study says that there are now 8.2 million Mexicans who are sons and daughters of these emigrated Mexicans in the USA and that 7.8...

Once World War II had broken out, it was too late to save the Jews of Europe. But prior to that, in the years and months leading up to the war, the Nazis were content to allow Jews to leave, albeit under harsh economic terms. However, for the vast majority of this persecuted minority there was nowhere to go. Western governments closed their gates to large-scale Jewish immigration. Some countries simply reinforced existing anti-immigration laws - such as the 1905 Aliens Act in Britain or the 1924 Immigration Act in the US. Others, such as the governments of South Africa...

In 1967, there was not one Palestinian on this planet. We created the Palestinians by forcing West Bank Jordanians to redefine themselves. Between 1948 and 1967 every single Palestinian was a full-fledged Jordanian citizen. With our backs to the wall in 1967, we attacked when the surrounding armies mobilized with orders to exterminate every single Jew, women and children included. We just wanted to survive. We did not expect to win and certainly did not expect to regain the rest of Biblical Israel. After winning, we were stuck in a bind. On the one hand, once regained we could not...

Coast Guard cutters operating off South Florida's shores have picked up fewer Cuban migrants in the first three months of the year than Haitians and Dominicans combined. But the absence of large numbers of Cuban migrants headed for South Florida may be the calm before the storm. A wave of repression in Cuba in recent weeks has been so alarming that U.S. officials have begun to wonder whether Cuba may unleash a new Mariel-style exodus -- a typical Cuban response in times of crisis. American officials are so worried that they have already quietly advised Cuba not to attempt any...

Mexico occupies center stage in United States immigration policy. In a visit to Monterey, Mexico, President George W. Bush declared that “Mexico has a special category and condition as a partner and also as a neighbor of the United States, in the matter of immigration” (La Reforma, March 23, 2002). Besides its varied ramifications in domestic policies, immigration from Mexico to the U.S. has, for the first time, become not only a U.S. domestic issue, but a foreign policy issue as well. Too often, though, discussion of immigration fails to take into account the attitudes toward immigration in sending...

I recently finished reading a book for my college class. The book is entitled "Working with Words" and it is by Brian Brooks, James L. Pinson, and Jean Gaddy Wilson. The book is supposed to teach you the writer how to write using AP style. I was fine with the book until the 13th chapter. The subject drifts completely away from grammer, and the authors go into a unrelated diatribe on racism. Naturally being a conservative I was very upset by this, and will use this the next time I hear some liberal say that America's colleges aren't left leaning....

I made an observation while watching Foxnews. Whenever John Kasich fills in for Bill O'Reilly a lot of the time he takes the opposite stance that O'Reilly takes on certain issues. This suprises me a little.... I would think that with the ego O'Reilly has, he wouldn't let someone host with complete opposite views than he. If Foxnews is as Al Gore says sending out "Talking Points" for us mindless Americans to follow, why don't they monitor their hosts a little more?

Carlos Hernandez laughed heartily at his countrymen's chants each time outfielder Endy Chavez went to the plate for Venezuela in the Caribbean World Series this winter in Caracas. It seemed cute and clever, but definitely not a prelude to a coup. Whether the host Venezuelans were playing Mexico, Puerto Rico or the Dominican Republic, it didn't matter. The fans saved their greatest scorn for their own president, Hugo Chavez, a man many consider Latin America's next Fidel Castro. "Endy, si!" the fans cried out. "Chavez, no!" In other words: Endy, yes. Chavez, no. Those ballpark chants have resonated lately for...