A.D. 2041 -- End of White America?

A.D. 2041 -- End of White America?

Pat Buchanan
Creators Syndicate
Oct. 17, 2011

John Hope Franklin, the famed black historian at Duke University, once told the incoming freshmen, "The new America in the 21st century will be primarily non-white, a place George Washington would not recognize."

In his June 1998 commencement address at Portland State, President Clinton affirmed it: "In a little more than 50 years, there will be no majority race in the United States." The graduates cheered.

The Census Bureau has now fixed at 2041 the year when whites become a minority in a country where the Founding Fathers had restricted citizenship to "free white persons" of "good moral character."

With publication today of "Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?" this writer takes up what this portends. And while many on the left are enthusiastic about relegating the America of Eisenhower and JFK to a reactionary past, I concur with the late Clare Boothe Luce.

In this world, she said, there are optimists and pessimists.

"The pessimists are better informed."

What are the seemingly inevitable consequences of an America where whites are a shrinking minority?

First, the end of a national Republican Party that routinely gets 90 percent of its presidential votes from white America.

California is the harbinger of what is to come.

Carried by Richard Nixon in all five presidential elections when he was on the ticket and by Ronald Reagan all four times he ran, California, where whites are now a shrinking minority, is a state where the GOP faces extinction. John McCain's share of the California vote was down to the Barry Goldwater level of 1964.

When Texas, where two-thirds of the newborns and half the schoolchildren are Hispanic, goes the way of California, it is the end for the GOP. Arizona, Colorado and Nevada, also critical to any victorious GOP coalition, are Hispanicizing as rapidly as Texas.

In every presidential election since Bush I in 1992, Hispanics have given 60-70 percent of their votes to the Democratic ticket.

For Hispanics, largely poor and working class, are beneficiaries of a cornucopia of government goods -- from free education to food stamps to free health care. Few pay federal income taxes.

Why would they not vote for the Party of Government?

Second, the economic crisis of California, brought on by an outflow of taxpayers and a huge influx of tax consumers -- i.e., millions of immigrants, legal and illegal -- will be mirrored nationally.

For though the majority of immigrants and illegals comes to work, and work hard, most now come from Third World countries and do not bring the academic or professional skills of European-Americans.

Third, the decline in academic test scores here at home and in international competition is likely to continue, as more and more of the children taking those tests will be African-American and Hispanic. For though we have spent trillions over four decades, we have failed to close the racial gap in education. White and Asian children continue to outscore black and Hispanic children.

Can the test-score gap be closed? With the Hispanic illegitimacy rate at 51 percent and the black rate having risen to 71 percent, how can their children conceivably arrive at school ready to compete?

Should this continue for three decades, what will it mean for America if Asians and whites occupy the knowledge-industry jobs, while scores of millions of black and Hispanic workers are relegated to low-paying service-sector jobs? Will that make for social tranquility?

Affirmative action is one answer. But this is already causing a severe backlash, and the reason is obvious.

When affirmative action was first imposed, whites outnumbered blacks nine to one. The burden of reverse discrimination on the white community was thus relatively light. Today, however, not only blacks, but Hispanics and women -- two-thirds of the entire population -- qualify for affirmative action in hiring and school admissions.

And the burden falls almost entirely on white males, who are one-third of the country but three-fourths of the dead and wounded coming back from Afghanistan.

Sociologist Robert Putnam, author of "Bowling Alone," has also found that the greater the racial and ethnic diversity in a community, the less social capital there is -- i.e., people in diverse settings are far less disposed to cooperate for social goals. They retreat into enclaves of their own kind.

Putnam found social capital at the lowest level he ever measured in Los Angeles, the most diverse community on earth. Yet, by 2042, the demography of every American city will approximate that of L.A.

What is happening to America is happening across the West.

Can Western civilization survive the passing of the European peoples whose ancestors created it and their replacement by Third World immigrants? Probably not, for the new arrivals seem uninterested in preserving the old culture they have found.

Those who hold the white race responsible for the mortal sins of mankind -- slavery, racism, imperialism, genocide -- may welcome its departure from history. Those who believe that the civilization that came out of Jerusalem, Athens, Rome and London to be the crowning achievement of mankind will mourn its passing.

Buchanan brings up some good points and some good facts.

For our European friends who think this is silly or that Buchanan is crazy or racist.... would you settle for your country to be turned over to some minority population that you didn't invite there in the first place? Because that's exactly what's happening to America.

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Arx Ferrum wrote:Conspiracy theories are rife with tales of secret organizations that basically form a world government, operating the controls out of sight of the population. Their aim is to create a one world government and the avenue to doing this takes the course of a number of critical steps.

Erasing national borders through treaty and diluting their population ratios through immigration.

Gradual decommissioning of national constitutions to be replaced by common law mandated through UN.
NOTE: Biggest obstacle to this is the US Constitution and legally armed population.

Single world market structure and currency acquired through upheavals in national economies.
NOTE: One step to this eventuality would be to drain America's industrial base by shipping it overseas, thus depriving people of jobs and the economy of revenue.

Control of global food and energy supplies through UN laws enacted to save the environment.

What one chooses to believe of all of this is another matter. The world wide web that began as an information superhighway has now devolved into a flea market for rumor & innuendo... if not a dedicated bazaar for the bizarre. The problem with applying common sense and logic to all of this is that you can sometimes find yourself staring right into the equated eyeballs of those very endings.

I don't understand Mike. What has your post to do with the article above

Pat didn't talk about a single one of those conspiracy theories. Rather, he cited cold, hard demographic facts and rather conservative projections of demographic shifts.

Whether we like it or not, our demography is changing, and not necessarily for the better - that was the point of the article. That isn't a "conspiracy" theory - that's just the naked truth.

I should know, I lived in Southern California from the mid 70's until just a few years ago. I am an eye witness to that truth.

The conspiracy topic walked in because I have read the same subject elsewhere re the diluting of former ethnicity factors, not only here but in the UK and across Europe. Former majorities are no longer majorities and there are many who feel that it was a conspiracy to dilute the voting trends of those former, or soon to be former, majorities.

But, you're right. This was a political take on the subject and not one of any other factors. It was not directly related and I do apologize. I have deleted the text within the post in question.

My bad.

No need to delete your postings.

But yeah, I lived in Texas and saw the changes coming. That was one of the reasons I left. My friend in Ft. Worth lived in Cali his whole life and he said the Mexicans destroyed his rock hauling business by driving the rates down so low that he couldn't compete and even break even. He didn't know how they did it. So, he sold all of his trucking company (5 trucks) and moved to Texas. He's black, btw, so he was a "minority" that got his ass handed to him by anther minority. He told me that these "changes" is destroying California.

When conservatives use the term "invasion", they're pretty much correct.

Thru all of this kind of discussion, people like me are labeled a racist. I'm far from that. I know plenty of Democrat voters right here in this town I live in who say the exact same thing.

Arx Ferrum wrote:The conspiracy topic walked in because I have read the same subject elsewhere re the diluting of former ethnicity factors, not only here but in the UK and across Europe. Former majorities are no longer majorities and there are many who feel that it was a conspiracy to dilute the voting trends of those former, or soon to be former, majorities.

But, you're right. This was a political take on the subject and not one of any other factors. It was not directly related and I do apologize. I have deleted the text within the post in question.

My bad.

Well gee man! Ya didn't have to delete anything! Or apologize! I wasn't upset in the slightest my friend.

I was just trying to draw out the connection between your post and the article Tex posted.

Certainly you have a valid point respecting various conspiracies centered on voter dilution.

Even if anyone is upset in here, we always get over it.

TexasBlue wrote:Even if anyone is upset in here, we always get over it.

Or we stomp out in a huff...

dblboggie wrote:

TexasBlue wrote:Even if anyone is upset in here, we always get over it.

Or we stomp out in a huff...

And not come back for weeks at a time.

TexasBlue wrote:

dblboggie wrote:

TexasBlue wrote:Even if anyone is upset in here, we always get over it.

Or we stomp out in a huff...

And not come back for weeks at a time.

If ever....

I get so mad that I disappear for, oh, maybe 10 minutes.

TexasBlue wrote:I get so mad that I disappear for, oh, maybe 10 minutes.

I don't get mad... I get even.

dblboggie wrote:

TexasBlue wrote:I get so mad that I disappear for, oh, maybe 10 minutes.

I don't get mad... I get even.

I don't get even. I get ahead.

TexasBlue wrote:

dblboggie wrote:

TexasBlue wrote:I get so mad that I disappear for, oh, maybe 10 minutes.

I don't get mad... I get even.

I don't get even. I get ahead.

Cute...

Actually, not mad at all. Was mainly just being careful about staying on-topic. Some places on the web are more particular than others. I connected into the subject from an admitted angle so... it seemed like the thing to do.

I'm good here, guys.

No problem Mike. We're not against the odd angle on a topic or sticklers about off topic comments.