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To: Polycarp
I recently saw an interesting History Channel program about how a falling birth rate doomed Sparta. The shrinking proportion of Romans in their state was recognized by contemporary writers as early as 100 AD (if my memory serves--I could find the exact references if I felt it necessary). Anyway, by any measure, white Northern European/North American culture is doomed by demographics. It's happened plenty of times before.
8 posted on 10/03/2002 2:23:28 PM PDT by warchild9
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To: warchild9
Anyway, by any measure, white Northern European/North American culture is doomed by demographics. It's happened plenty of times before.

Yup. When a culture stops having enough kids to replace the present generation, it's like a giant "NO CONFIDENCE" vote.

10 posted on 10/03/2002 2:25:26 PM PDT by Poohbah
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True.

However future Demographics are not written in stone. If every married women had 4 children, we would have a postive growth rate without immigration.
If we increade the marriage and fertility rate, we would do even better.
43 posted on 10/03/2002 4:40:37 PM PDT by rmlew
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