Looked up the census figures for Cumbrian counties. It appears they are in the %90+ white, so what’s going on? Too much pandering to the non white population?
“Looked up the census figures for Cumbrian counties. It appears they are in the %90+ white, so what’s going on? Too much pandering to the non white population?”
I see the same here in the Northern parts of France and throughout the countryside, people the ex-president Francois Hollande called derisively “les sans-dents” (without tooth) are suffering in silence. It’s heart breaking.
Same as it is here.. business are dodging taxes by importing workers in stem fields. They claim there aren’t enogh American kids. It’s a lie. Many of these countries lack the same standards of education. I work in a stem field. I have personally experienced the degree mill grads who have a paper degree but make life threatening mistakes a new American grad would not make. Yes, I said life threatening.
But the worst tax dodging offender is our government.
While I have not read the books below, I’ve read enough of Theodore Dalrymple’s essays at City Journal and elsewhere to know there are plenty of problems in the white lower classes. Read a few of the Amazon reviews of his books, Our Culture, What’s Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses and Not With a Bang but a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline to get a sense of what is at work here. The welfare state and Leftist social policy is a big enabler of cultural decline, unsurprisingly.
Here is his page at City Journal:
https://www.city-journal.org/contributor/theodore-dalrymple_44
As a follow up to my previous, here’s a good essay that outlines some of the cultural rot. It’s from 10 years ago, so these forces have been in play for quite some time.
Childhood’s End
Britain, land of bleak houses and low expectations
https://www.city-journal.org/html/childhood’s-end-13114.html