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Demographics is destiny, and ours looks pretty good

Joel Kotkin has written another great piece entitled, Demography vs. Geography: Understanding the Political Future. I highly recommend you go read the whole thing. He analyzes trends as they relate to voting patterns. Minorities are increasing (bad for Republicans?), and liberal sinkholes like New York and California are losing congressional seats to successful conservative states like Texas and Utah.






One disappointment:  Professor Kotkin accepts liberal premises and language regarding minorities in America, and he off-handedly repeats them:

The Latinization of America, even if immigration slows, is now inevitable. Only 12 percent of the U.S. population in 2000, Hispanics will become almost 25 percent by 2050. As more Latinos integrate into society and become citizens, they are gradually forming a political force. Since 1990, the number of registered Latino voters swelled from 4.4 million to nearly 10 million today.

Anglos—60 percent of whom supported Republican congressional candidates in 2010—are beginning to experience an inexorable decline. In 1960, whites accounted for more than 90 percent of the electorate; today, that number is down to 75 percent. It will drop even more rapidly in the coming decades, with white non-Hispanics expected to account for barely half the nation’s population by 2050.

The burgeoning Hispanic (or Asian, or pick your minority) population is not the threat to "whites" that gleeful liberals keep shouting it is
 
In the creepy progressive lexicon, “minority” is anyone who is not 100% white.  If a white man marries a Cuban woman and they have three kids, they have just produced three Hispanics. By definition, they cannot produce “white” or “Anglo” kids. This eugenic-tinged standard is why we keep hearing that whites will be a minority one day.

It's useful to recall that 100 years ago, the ancestors of these "whites" were deplored as Irish, Italian and Slavic hordes that would demographically swamp America.  These people of yesterday, like Hispanics today, assimilated, thanks in large part to our common cultural roots of Western Christendom.  Our nation-scape is populated by families with Hispanic names like Robles, Nelson and Sandoval who speak no Spanish.  German is still America's largest ethnic group, yet you never hear it spoken.  These Americans may have artifacts from their family's distant past:  A German Bible, pictures, or faded letters in a now-incomprehensible language, but they are Americans.   

Hispanicizing America, or Americanizing Hispanics?

Minorities intermarry and assimilate.

Among all newlyweds in 2008, 9% of whites, 16% of blacks, 26% of Hispanics and 31% of Asians married someone whose race or ethnicity was different from their own.

White-Hispanic couples accounted for about four-in-ten (41%) of such new marriages; white-Asian couples made up 15%; and white-black couples made up 11%. (PEW 2010 Study)

Get that?  Whites are the least likely to marry outside their race.  Meanwhile, two times as many blacks, three times as many Hispanics, and almost four times as many Asians marry outside their racial/ethic group.  And when they do, it is overwhelmingly to whites.

So, we could just as easily talk about the Anglicization of Hispanics

Racial discussions like this are disturbing in so many ways.  Sorting and analyzing and applying progressive purity tests are horrible relics best resigned to the Woodrow Wilson era.  Another condescension is to assume that Hispanics form a politically and culturally homogeneous block. They do not. Voting trends prove it, and anyone who knows some Mexicans as well as some Puerto Ricans and South Americans can tell you that when you meet one Hispanic you definitely have not met them all.

All this talk is making me hungry for tacos and egg rolls.  America will not be overrun by foreigners.  The data shows that we will end up looking more and more like Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and his family, and that's a pretty good future to look forward to.

Joel Kotkin – Demography vs Geography
PEW – Marrying Out
Linda Chavez – Census Hysteria