Tribal America
On our suddenly race-obsessed politics.
"... On Fox News, Democrat Kirsten Powers argued that Republicans needed to deal with the reality that America is becoming what she called a 'brown country.' Her fellow Democrat Bob Beckel observed on several occasions that if the share of the 'white vote' was held down below 73 percent Romney would lose. In the end, it was 72 percent and he did. Beckel’s assertion — that if you knew the ethnic composition of the electorate you also knew the result — turned out to be correct.
"This is what less enlightened societies call tribalism: For example, in the 1980 election leading to Zimbabwe’s independence, Joshua Nkomo’s ZAPU-PF got the votes of the Ndebele people while Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF secured those of the Shona — and, as there were more Shona than Ndebele, Mugabe won. ...
"Everyone talks about this demographic transformation as if it’s a natural phenomenon, like Hurricane Sandy. Indeed, I notice that many of those exulting in the inevitable eclipse of 'white America' are the same people who assure me that demographic arguments about the Islamization of Europe are completely preposterous. But in neither the United States nor Europe is it a natural phenomenon. Rather, it’s the fruit of conscious government policy.
"According to the Census, in 1970 the 'Non-Hispanic White' population of California was 78 percent. By the 2010 census, it was 40 percent. Over the same period, the 10 percent Hispanic population quadrupled and caught up with whites.
"That doesn’t sound terribly 'natural' does it? If one were informed that, say, the population of Nigeria had gone from 80 percent black in 1970 to 40 percent black today, one would suspect something rather odd and unnatural had been going on. ...
"demographics is destiny and, absent assimilationist incentives this country no longer imposes, a Latin American population will wind up living in a Latin American society."
Fine article, but with the massive incoming numbers that have now been forced upon us for decades by ruling elites, such "assimilationist" policies would simply mean a faster assimilationist sinking of the first-world population down into the swamp of the third.
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