"While the Colorado congressman's message might win votes as a hot-button issue in 2008 and 2012, Mr. McIntyre said, demographic trends suggested the position might prove electoral poison in 2016 and beyond as the American electorate becomes increasingly Hispanic"
The country will be totally polarized by then so there will be nothing worth saving anyway...who cares?
If true, perhaps we can jot down 2016 as the likely end date for the USA: the date after which sovereignty will no longer be supported by the electorate.
1776-2016: 240 years. Better than many nations last, though not stellar in the grand scheme.
Well, Europe, of course, will be dead by then too, buried under a heap of Islam...leaving maybe Australia and Iceland to burn the Western Civ. candle for a few final years.