Posted on 04/03/2004 11:22:26 AM PST by 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.
As you travel across the Texas border the people change. As you travel down into Mexico and on through Guatemala and Honduras and on into South America, the people look the same.
Well, now, in spite of your presumptions, I care if a man is 1) in this country legally 2) he works and produces 3) he speaks English and 4) he is willing to immerse himself in America swear allegiance to it. I do have a problem with making citizens of the births of illegal immigrant mothers.
I too was in the Marines, and I too was in armed conflict and, I too was injured, so you can take your insinuations, make a obelisk, and sit on it.
El Gato. Are you in this country legally? Where is your allegiance?
What country? What nationality? It doesn't look to me that's how that word is used.
What's a hispanic who learned English then? Especially if they never learned Spanish? What's a Mennonite from Casas Grandeswho speaks fluent Spanish and holds only Mexican citizenship? What is Vicente Fox? Since Spaniards are generally referred to as "Europeans" and not "hispanic" and his ethnic heritage is European Spanish and Irish --- then does he count as a "hispanic"?
What if the Dutch woman is a brunette --- there are some --- and the Italian woman is a fair skinned blonde with blue-eyes? I was actually surprised to meet an Egyptian woman --- directly from Egypt with brown hair, pale green eyes and freckles.
Not even close. The Cherokee Indians were obviously never "hispanic", the Mayan, Azteca, Zacatecan, etc Indians were never "hispanic" until after Spain took over Mexico. Mexican Indians might now be called "hispanic" and go along with that label if they come to the USA --- but "hispanic" isn't really much used even in the so-called "hispanic" countries.
I don't know --- I have met very few Egyptians --- and since all people originally came from either North Africa or the Middle East it's more like it was migration out but intermarriage and mixing of tribes and people has always happened so it's very likely Europeans traveled to North Africa and vice versa. This woman only claimed to be Egyptian and said there are others who are fair-skinned in that country but since I know fair skinned Lebanese also I think maybe they were always in that region.
Well --- it is about debate and we tend to be on opposite sides of this issue --- sort of --- although at times I think we'd come down to the same belief that if welfare handouts were ended that much of the problem would be mostly gone. I just disagree with the whole concept of race so was pointing that out. I don't think the Indians were ever some united race --- but all different tribes with different characteristics and cultures --- just like the people of Africa and Europe and Asia are --- and the same goes for that new category we call "hispanics" --- they don't come from the same country, race, class, or other --- I know "hispanics" born and raised in the Midwest who think it's weird that I can tolerate living on the border because they think it's awful and they couldn't wait to return to the Midwest -- to their more Ted Nugent lifestyle -- hunting and fishing --- but I don't know why they're even referred to as that because they don't speak Spanish and aren't from a hispanic country. I was laughing with a "hispanic" border patrol agent the other day who was also born in the Midwest who was just briefly transferred to the Northeast and people thought he was a Mexican --- but he has some Texas "tejano" roots I guess because his family had some of those old Spanish land grants.
If it means we will be hearing less from Pat Buchanan, then I'm all for it.
Well said!
Both my family and my husband's family have been in America so long that we really aren't sure where they came from. It doesn't matter in the slightest because they did not cling to "the old world". They adapted to America and raised they children and all future generations to be proud Americans. Sadly, that isn't happening today. It truly is the Balkanization of America.
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