[aquila48]

“He speaks economics, but Balkanization is about ethnicity.”

I have to disagree. We’ve had many ethnic groups for most of our history - English, Irish, German, Italian Spanish, Chinese, Japanese... you name it they’ve come here. Balkanization was never a significant problem until recently, until leftist ideas such as multicult replaced the “melting pot”.

[rmlew]

I have to disagree. We’ve had many ethnic groups for most of our history - English, Irish, German, Italian Spanish, Chinese, Japanese... you name it they’ve come here. Balkanization was never a significant problem until recently, until leftist ideas such as multicult replaced the “melting pot”.
For previous waves of immigration the founding populations was a majority, soon added to be assimilated others who intermarried. This majority was self-assured, demanded that immigrants assimilate, and restricted immigration every generation or two to ensure this. None of these factors are true today.