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.

[Welsh Rabbit]

Productive culture is not always race or ethnicity defined.

Protestant and Confucian work ethic perhaps?

[litehaus]

"Can you think of a non-white First World nation aside from Japan or Singapore or South Korea? I can't."

Careful...you'll be flamed as racist,I fear, for speaking things like---the truth............

[DemWatch]

Whoa...calm down. Take deep breaths ..... feeling any better yet?

[Cronos]

Are Asian's racists, when they insist that their children marry within their race, or deny citizenship on racial grounds

They may insist, but look around there have been many Asian-non-Asian marriages (not so much here, but quite a lot in the UK) and Asians denying citizenship on racial grounds??? Weird, considering a sizable chunk of Asians ARE Caucasians (folks from the Indian sub continent -- 1.5 billion of them)

[Cronos]

Nearly everywhere the British (what folks really mean historically as WHITEY) settled and colonized and exploited and oppressed is now much better off because of said exploitation and oppression.

Nope. Take the Indian continent for example -- BEfore the Brits (in 1800), they accounted for 25% of world trade and GDP. AFter the Brits (in 1950) they accounted for less than 1%. The Brits set up a monopoly over there and crushed the native industries. The largest famines were under British rule (as was the Irish Potato famine). The Brits were better than the French, yes, but that ain't saying too much.

[wardaddy]

Costa Rica is the least Amerindian of all Central American nations.

[neutrino]

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.

You can count on it. Our police and courts will be every bit as honest as those in Mexico. Our civil society will have the peace and order of Columbia. We'll benefit from the strong democratic traditions of the People's Republic of China and India.

Fortuntely, I have no offspring - and I anticipate being dead well before 2050. Y'all have fun!

[Dog Gone]

I'm guessing you haven't visited there, either. Native Costa Ricans are much lighter-skinned than the Nicaraguans who live to their north.

There was very a very small native population of Indians when Costa Rica began being colonized. There is probably more Swiss blood in the population than Indian although there is some Nicaraguan influence.

[wardaddy]

My point was: why did we not offer to help them?

Most would have been productive....and more likely to be conservative in my opinion.

[Polybius]

Pat seems pessimistic that anybody but white Europeans can make good Americans.

In the 19th Century, people like Pat Buchanan believed that Catholics and the Irish would never make good Americans.

In the late 19th Century and early 20th Century, writers feared the day when America would no longer be predominantly of "Anglo-Saxon stock" .......And, no, they did not mean the generic "Anglo" of modern P.C. speech. They meant Anglo-Saxon as opposed to German, Irish, French, Italian, Jewish, Scandinavian, Spanish, Polish, Austrian, Greek, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian or anybody else that did not originate from England or Scotland. Somebody with the last name of "Rickenbacker", "Eisenhower" or "Nimitz" was not considered to be of "Anglo-Saxon stock".

How many pure-bred Anglo-Saxon Americans are left in America today outside of remote areas of Appalachia? The only ones that I know are naturalized citizens who still speak with a noticeable British accent.

[Alter Kaker]

Let's reduce the white percentage to about 10%

Not only are you a racist, you are a fool. White people are 80% of American population.

[Cronos]

Btw, quiz time: whixh nation has a higher per capita income, Costa Rica or Mexico?

From cia.gov

Cost Rica: Population 4 million, GDP $32 billion, GDP per capita $8,300

Mexico 105 million, $924 billion, $8,900 per cap.

Who has the higher per capita income? MEXICO.

[Torie]

Actually, the British industrial revolution crushed India's economy. It could no longer compete in the manufacture of textiles. Britian forged India into a nation which the rule of law and a democratic system that has survived. That is a huge achievement. All India needed to do was dump the Fabian Socialist British ethos at the time of its independence, and it is now rapidly doing that, and taking off economically. Cybertrade of course helps a lot too.

[iconoclast]

I learned it in school

Which? English or Italian?

I speak more dutch creole than italian

You're lucky to have found a conversation partner. Google said:

Classification: Creole, Dutch based.

Comments: The last speaker died recently. There may be some remaining second language speakers. Extinct. NT 1781-1833.

I speak English 99% of the time.

I try. ;o)

[Torie]

Yep, that was my source. :)

[Cronos]

but a nation divided by race, perhaps as follows: 40% white, 25% hispanic, 20% asian and 15% black

Asian is NOT a race. nearly half of all Asians are Caucasians (Semites and Aryans)

[LWalk18]

Fortuntely, I have no offspring - and I anticipate being dead well before 2050. Y'all have fun!

Yeah, that's how to solve the "problem"- whites are falling behind in numbers, so don't have any children. Of course Pat doesn't any white children either, maybe he thinks like you do.

[Dog Gone]

I don't have time for a nap. I'm too busy being a communist.

[Cronos]

Don't pick up lines out of my mails and read them out of context. I AM Catholic. I was pointing out that Pat's fantasy world in the 1960s in which all Americans believed in ONE God was not considered correct by many Americans. Many Protestant Americans believed that Catholics did not worship the same God or were blasphemists (and many do now). Pat's tossing out red herrings left right and center