“The ethnic makeup of your children’s classes is a reflection of where you live and the demographics of the area. It doesn’t reflect the entire country.”
Anglo-Americans have deceived themselves for decades that someone else would have the kids they themselves were foregoing; keep going with that strategy. It gave us two terms of Obama; that doesn’t lie, either.
Fertility rates decline as nations acquire more wealth. The fertility rates of China and Japan are much less than ours for different reasons. So is most of Europe.
It is one thing for "Anglo-Americans" to have less children, it is another to embrace a public policy on immigration that will transform a predominantly non-Hispanic white country to a majority minority nation. It started with the 1965 Immigration Act that abolished the national origins act. As a result, 87% of our 1.2 million legal immigrants who enter each year are minorities.
I doubt that there has ever been a country in world history that has peacefully transformed itself so that the principal race/ethnic group made itself a minority. Immigration is a controllable variable. We have actually increased immigration over the past 40 years. The last two decades have been the highest in US history. And if the Gang of 8 bill is adopted, we will almost triple the numbers that came in during the last decade, the highest in our history.
The demographic changes have many consequences, including electoral ones. The question is whether we can assimilate such numbers and still remain the same country that embraces the views and vision of our Founders or whether we will be Balkanized along racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic lines. 20% of Americans now live in households where a language other than English is spoken. And those numbers will only grow.