Brilliant! Can I steal that?
“Demography is destiny” (infrequently given as “demographics is destiny” or “demographics are destiny”) was coined by Ben Wattenberg and Richard M. Scammon in their book The Real Majority: An Extraordinary Examination of the American Electorate (1970). The authors wrote “to paraphrase Heraclitus by saying, ‘Demography is destiny’”—Heraclitus (535 BC-475 BC) wrote “character is destiny.” In politics, “demography is destiny” means that the demographics of a population indicate which political party will carry a district.
The saying “demography is destiny” has been attributed to French philosopher Auguste Comte (1798-1857) since the 1980s. The word “demography,” however, was first cited in print in 1880. Comte (and many other writers) might have written something similar, but the authorship attribution is incorrect.