Posted on 10/18/2011 5:03:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
John Hope Franklin, the famed black historian at Duke University, once told the incoming freshmen, "The new America in the 21st century will be primarily non-white, a place George Washington would not recognize."
In his June 1998 commencement address at Portland State, President Clinton affirmed it: "In a little more than 50 years, there will be no majority race in the United States." The graduates cheered.
The Census Bureau has now fixed at 2041 the year when whites become a minority in a country where the Founding Fathers had restricted citizenship to "free white persons" of "good moral character."
With publication today of "Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?" this writer takes up what this portends. And while many on the left are enthusiastic about relegating the America of Eisenhower and JFK to a reactionary past, I concur with the late Clare Boothe Luce.
In this world, she said, there are optimists and pessimists.
"The pessimists are better informed."
What are the seemingly inevitable consequences of an America where whites are a shrinking minority?
First, the end of a national Republican Party that routinely gets 90 percent of its presidential votes from white America.
California is the harbinger of what is to come.
Carried by Richard Nixon in all five presidential elections when he was on the ticket and by Ronald Reagan all four times he ran, California, where whites are now a shrinking minority, is a state where the GOP faces extinction. John McCain's share of the California vote was down to the Barry Goldwater level of 1964.
When Texas, where two-thirds of the newborns and half the schoolchildren are Hispanic, goes the way of California, it is the end for the GOP. Arizona, Colorado and Nevada, also critical to any victorious GOP coalition, are Hispanicizing as rapidly as Texas.
In every presidential election since Bush I in 1992, Hispanics have given 60-70 percent of their votes to the Democratic ticket.
For Hispanics, largely poor and working class, are beneficiaries of a cornucopia of government goods -- from free education to food stamps to free health care. Few pay federal income taxes.
Why would they not vote for the Party of Government?
Second, the economic crisis of California, brought on by an outflow of taxpayers and a huge influx of tax consumers -- i.e., millions of immigrants, legal and illegal -- will be mirrored nationally.
For though the majority of immigrants and illegals comes to work, and work hard, most now come from Third World countries and do not bring the academic or professional skills of European-Americans.
Third, the decline in academic test scores here at home and in international competition is likely to continue, as more and more of the children taking those tests will be African-American and Hispanic. For though we have spent trillions over four decades, we have failed to close the racial gap in education. White and Asian children continue to outscore black and Hispanic children.
Can the test-score gap be closed? With the Hispanic illegitimacy rate at 51 percent and the black rate having risen to 71 percent, how can their children conceivably arrive at school ready to compete?
Should this continue for three decades, what will it mean for America if Asians and whites occupy the knowledge-industry jobs, while scores of millions of black and Hispanic workers are relegated to low-paying service-sector jobs? Will that make for social tranquility?
Affirmative action is one answer. But this is already causing a severe backlash, and the reason is obvious.
When affirmative action was first imposed, whites outnumbered blacks nine to one. The burden of reverse discrimination on the white community was thus relatively light. Today, however, not only blacks, but Hispanics and women -- two-thirds of the entire population -- qualify for affirmative action in hiring and school admissions.
And the burden falls almost entirely on white males, who are one-third of the country but three-fourths of the dead and wounded coming back from Afghanistan.
Sociologist Robert Putnam, author of "Bowling Alone," has also found that the greater the racial and ethnic diversity in a community, the less social capital there is -- i.e., people in diverse settings are far less disposed to cooperate for social goals. They retreat into enclaves of their own kind.
Putnam found social capital at the lowest level he ever measured in Los Angeles, the most diverse community on earth. Yet, by 2042, the demography of every American city will approximate that of L.A.
What is happening to America is happening across the West.
Can Western civilization survive the passing of the European peoples whose ancestors created it and their replacement by Third World immigrants? Probably not, for the new arrivals seem uninterested in preserving the old culture they have found.
Those who hold the white race responsible for the mortal sins of mankind -- slavery, racism, imperialism, genocide -- may welcome its departure from history. Those who believe that the civilization that came out of Jerusalem, Athens, Rome and London to be the crowning achievement of mankind will mourn its passing.
Pat was just on Imus in the Morning. Spent at least two minutes excoriating Perry for his 16th century remark. Glad I’m not the only one to be outraged by this gaffe.
Fools. They may want to look at how whites fared in Zimbabwe or South Africa as a minority before the get too enthusiastic.
No mystery why America is in decline.
This is based on three big assumptions: 1. Mexicans will continue to immigrate here at 2000 - 2010 rates 2. Mexicans will continue to produce the same birth rates extrapolated out and 3. There will be no influx of legal immigration from Europe going forward. I’m not buying it.
1. Illegal immigration from Mexico has been way down as job opportunities have dwindled. It is a known fact, but since census is only taken every 10 years, it hasn’t been picked up on.
2. The Mexicans already here will slowly melt into our culture and birth rates will come down to normal levels.
3. With Europe crumbling, some of the more productive citizens will be looking for a new home. We could see an influx of Greek, Spanish, and Portugese immigrants much like we saw Italian and Irish immigration in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
What role does the contraceptive mentality play in this?
By 2041, I think the idea of “white America” will be a moot point, as the 50-state country as we know it will have already splintered.
Which is to say, we may already be "there". The last time I voted for a Democrat was 1972 and that was only because I felt that Richard Nixon was doing his best to get me killed at the time. It's a major error to assume that all individuals who are not of 100% Anglo-Saxon blood will exhibit the same voting pattern as African Americans do now. The proportion of Voters who ID as Democrats is as low as it's been since Hoover.
The natural state of the world is Darfur. The freakish aberration is America and the rest of the Anglo-Saxon world.
So Hispanics are not considered white? Where will the African American population be then since the left is trying to abort every one of them?
A lot. We chose to have only two kids (wife got a tubal). We had built a house capable of holding only two comfortably. Why? Being white middle class, we believed we could afford only two college educations.
The reason for that high cost is government. There's a fix for it too.
Your post will offend gloom and doom defeatists here on FR who insist that America is finished.
America is not in stasis. And taking one period of history and extrapolating it out 50 years isn’t science; it’s Pat trying to sell a book.
Pffft...there won’t be an American in 2041. More like 35 or so banana republics.
Long story short; The U.S. will become a 3rd world hellhole just like every other formerly white run country that was turned over to the “people of color”.
The one thing Buchanan has not figured on is a SHTF scenario. If that happens who do you think will be in the first die off? I don’t know too many inner city and illegal alien preppers.
OMG!!
You, a responsible person, limited your lifestyle and family size because you are
PAYING TO SUPPORT SOMEONE ELSE’S KIDS.
And that “someone else” is doing nothing but raising a generation of criminals.
As long as women’s lib reigns in the hearts and minds of White women who would rather not have children and instead go to work in career or profession, sip lattes, and complain about how bad and inept men are, then 2041 isn’t really all that far fetched.
The outcome isn’t fixed in stone but the odds of White women having a sudden change in attitude toward men and children resulting in them returning home to have big families would be a miracle.
Getting white people out of way will certainly make it easier to make America into a third world hellhole.
Get hot guys!
What was the 16th century remark Perry made?
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