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You sound like a Pat Buchanan guy. (and yes, that is not a good thing!)

"One of these days, even you'll realize that third world immigration and free trade is bad for America."

People have been saying that for 200 years, and America rolls on. They said that America was going to hell in a handbasket 150 years ago because of all the Irish were pouring in. Many of the anti-immigrants then were anti-Catholic. And I take it your definition of "native-born" Americans does NOT mean American Indians.

http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0029/tab12.html

Year	Total population	Native stock	Foreign stock
NUMBER
1970*	203,210,158	169,634,926	33,575,232
1960*	179,325,675	145,275,233	34,050,442
1930	122,775,046	82,488,768	40,286,278
1920	105,710,620	68,994,682	36,715,938
1910	91,972,266	59,491,427	32,480,839
1900	75,994,575	49,956,178	26,038,397
1890 1/	62,622,250	41,840,305	20,781,945
PERCENT DISTRIBUTION
1970*	100.0	83.5	16.5
1960*	100.0	81.0	19.0
1930	100.0	67.2	32.8
1920	100.0	65.3	34.7
1910	100.0	64.7	35.3
1900	100.0	65.7	34.3
1890 1/	100.0	66.8	33.2

http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0029/twps0029.html

"Since 1970, the foreign-born population of the United States has increased rapidly due to large-scale immigration, primarily from Latin America and Asia. The foreign-born population rose from 9.6 million in 1970 to 14.1 million in 1980 and to 19.8 million in 1990. The estimated foreign-born population in 1997 was 25.8 million. As a percentage of the total population, the foreign-born population increased from 4.7 percent in 1970 to 6.2 percent in 1980, to 7.9 percent in 1990, and to an estimated 9.7 percent in 1997.2"

+ "As a percentage of total population, the foreign-born population rose from 9.7 percent in 1850 and fluctuated in the 13 percent to 15 percent range from 1860 to 1920 before dropping to 11.6 percent in 1930. The highest percentages foreign born were 14.4 percent in 1870, 14.8 percent in 1890 and 14.7 percent in 1910."

I never said that there was that much of a problem with European immigration. However, it even took time for some of those to assimilate, but you don't seem to figure the social incohesion when groups of many different races live amongst each other. I'm not going to act like it doesn't exist, as it has been human nature for people to seek out living areas in which the residents predominately look, think, and act like them. Hence, liberal areas, asian areas, black areas, white areas, etc.

My point is that with such huge numbers, along with social politics and the loss of the enforcement of assimilation, along with huge numbers outside of the dominant cultural stock, this country will most likely break-down in its cohesion. I think that it is highly likely this will be the result, and I don't think that seeing things this way is unrealistic.

Again, I'm trying to look at things realistically.