America no longer white, united, English-speaking

The Miami Herald ^ | 02 April 2004 | Patrick J. Buchanan

[MegaSilver]

In 1960, when JFK defeated Nixon, America was a nation of 160 million, 90 percent white and 10 percent black, with a few million Hispanics and Asians sprinkled among us.

We were one nation, one people. We worshipped the same God, spoke the same English language, studied American history and English literature, honored the same heroes, read the same books, watched the same TV shows, went to the same movies and saw ourselves as defenders of Western civilization against the godless communism of the Soviet Empire.

We were confident and proud of who we were. That was yesterday. But due to the Immigration Act of 1965 and the cultural revolution of the '60s, that America is now gone forever. And as one studies the latest projections of the Census Bureau, the America of our grandchildren will be another country altogether, a nation unrecognizable to our parents, a giant Brazil of the North.

In 2050, there will be three times as many people living here as in 1960 -- 420 million. White Americans will be a minority, 49 percent, and falling. Hispanics in the United States, more than 100 million, will be equal to the population of today's Mexico. Our Asian population will be almost as large as our African-American population today.

By countries of origin, America will be a Third World nation. Our cities will look like Los Angeles today. Los Angeles and the cities of Texas, Arizona and California will look like Mexico City.

Writing in Foreign Policy, Harvard Professor Samuel Huntington, author of Who We Are, raises an alarm about the huge infusion of Hispanics into the Southwest, and for many reasons.

Much of this mass immigration is illegal. Vast numbers are coming here only to work. They are not assimilating. They do not want to become Americans. They are concentrating in states bordering Mexico, which is their country and a nation with a historic grievance against us. They are holding on to their language and culture, creating a Hispanic nation within our nation. By 2050, there will be scores of millions of people living here whose loyalty is to a foreign country.

Moreover, as multiculturalism has captured our schools and colleges, immigrant children will have prejudices and grievances against America and the West reinforced as they learn. The academic elite that controls these schools already paints America as a nation with a rancid history of genocide, slavery, racism, oppression and imperialism.

Is the Census Bureau future the future that Americans wish? No. Are they willing to risk it for their grandchildren? No.

Why, then, does that future appear inevitable?

Answer: Though a majority of Americans wish to preserve the land they grew up in for their children, our elites -- political, academic, cultural and corporate -- are either unwilling to conserve that America or indifferent to its disappearance.

Most Americans want immigration cut back and all illegal aliens sent back. Why is the will of the majority, expressed in polls and referenda, not reflected in law or policy? Because we no longer live in a democratic republic; we are ruled by a managerial elite.

America's corporate elites want an endless supply of cheap labor. Our judges throw out popularly enacted laws to which they object. Our academic elites work to see ''white, racist America'' disappear. Our neo-Marxist cultural elites wish to be the gravediggers of the West and of Christian culture. And America's conservative party, the Republican Party, believes that Hispanics hold the key to retention of presidential power and is anxious not to offend Mexican President Vicente Fox.

If, by 2050, the America we grew up in has become a Tower of Babel of squabbling minorities that is falling apart, it will be because of the treason of the elites, and our lack of will to overthrow them.

[genghis]

I have never met a 7 year old that has been in our country for 3 years that doesn't speak english.
The problem is in 2050 nobody in mexico city will speak spanish, they will all speak english. English is a week and nothing is going to change that.

[BushMeister]

I'm not claiming that non-whites aren't real Americans. I am vigorously stating that America is facing an influx of non-whites that it won't be able to assimilate. And if every non-white nation on earth has the right to decide that it wants to retain a certain racial makeup or balance, should that be denied to majoriy-white nations?

I always thought that the citizens of a nation had the right to decide who joins them through immigration to become fellow citizens. This shouldn't be decided by a hole in a fence, or corrupt politicians and business leaders.

[iconoclast]

I believe it was the great Ronald Reagan that laid the wreath to which you're referring.

Should I presume that you consider yourself a conservative (since you frequent this forum). Well then, what kind? I gather you're not a Bush, Reagan, or Buchanan, type.

[Cronos]

Aside from Japan and a few Pacific rim nations, can you think of any other "Non-White" "First World" nations aside from maybe Bermuda or Cayman?

"First World" is a cold war terminology which is outdated. It means America and it's allies and included poor countries. Second world was the Soviet union and its allies. Third world was the non-aligned.

If you use the term developed, developing and underdeveloped, then the majority of the developed nations (total number barely two dozen) ARE white, but there are non-Caucasians there like the Japanese, Koreans and Singaporeans (and many do put the Malaysians in there too). When you talk about developing there ARE many Caucasian devloping nations (like the ones in Eastern Europe, India etc.).

[garbanzo]

Mexico is a good bit older than we are from pre-colonial times.

Huh? The first European colonists here came from monarchies and the remnants of old feudalistic cultures. How did they manage to form a liberal constitutional republic? If those immigrants were bound by the political structure of their countries of origin why should Mexican immigrants and their descendants by guided by the same?

[navyblue]

Maybe we should start of list of white non first world countries. I'll start first. Argentina. Your turn.

Sorry! Argentina is economically in the periphery or 3rd world.

[Cronos]

California - invaded by millions of illegal aliens from failed, third world regimes,

California -- invaded by millions of illegals from Central AMERICA.

[cyborg]

I do consider myself to be a conservative as far as principles go in terms of gun rights, abortion,etc.

[cyborg]

Don't get snippy with me newbie. Please you can't begin to talk to me about white people in Zimbabwe. Take your uninformed post elsewhere.

[Cronos]

as is Costa Rica....both are rather White Hispano nations btw same as Argentina which is the "whitest" nation in Latin America.

Costa Rica WHITE???? Caucasia? Ha. They're little less mestizo than the Mexicans

[Dog Gone]

restore immigration to only White, English-speaking Christians.

Wow.

[Cronos]

Uruguay is another white disappointment. And then we have Serbia.

Moldavia, Russia, Romania, Belarus, Armenia, Georgia, Bosnia, Albania, Poland, Bulgaria, etc. white, non-developed nations.

[Cronos]

People say that what happened in Beirut was a shame because, in the past, it was a shining example of a diverse, multicultural city.

Beirut was NOT a multi-cultural city. It was a Lebanese city, it was a multi-religious city, but all the people were Semitic in origin.

[Cronos]

It has to be pointed out to many here on FR that the republican party in not a conservative party, regardless of what context Pat uses.

Pat thinks the GOP should merge with the KKK

[bonfire]

Alabama? Probably have "slaves in the family". (btw, good book)

[LWalk18]

I am vigorously stating that America is facing an influx of non-whites that it won't be able to assimilate.

How do you know that? Anyone stating that they know how the country will be in 44 years is deluded. All of these speculations are based on the term "Hispanic" as a racial term, which it is not. Chances are the term won't even exist in 2050- it didn't exist in 1960 on the Census. I believe that the immigrants here today will be assimulated Americans- and I have history on my side. People made the same gloom and doom pronouncements in 1904- of course, the emphasis was on keeping the country Northern European. Many of the whites complaining today about those people ruining the ethnic balance would have been "those people" a century ago.

[Cronos]

I just don't understand why mentioning WHITE in virtually any context is considered RACIST?

Because it's stupid classifying people by the color of their skin -- black is equally dumb categorization. But differentiating between white and brown CAUCASIANS is ludicrous. So, folks change their race when they get a tan?????

[templar]

More Pat blather

Meaning you don't like Pat or you disagree with what he is saying?

[Cronos]

IF Pat is such a racist, because he dares to notice the racial change in America, then is Sharon, and the entire state of Isreal racist because they notice and care about the percentage of Jews that are in Isreal

Jews and ARabs are both of the same race: Semitic. So, Arabs can't be anti-Semitic as that would mean they're anti-themselves.