The fertility rate for whites was 1.9 in 1990, and is now around... 1.8.
Among college educated white women, the rate is presently 1.6 (for reference, China - with the One Child Policy - is sitting at 1.5, and Japan - which is in full on population free fall - is at 1.4). The overall rate for the whole country is around 1.9.
The Wall Street Journal - America's Baby Bust
Either way, the overall result of this is the same. Whites are dying off, and minorities are taking their place at a somewhat alarming rate.
You sure you're not worried about whites having less political power...?
Is there any reason I shouldn't be? I mean... Let's not quibble around reality here. Pragmatically speaking, power matters. If we have less, that simply means someone else has more.
In case you haven't noticed, quite a few of the (currently) minority groups in this country, and their political agenda setters, would like absolutely nothing better than to use any potential reversal of such power to make whites "pay" in some way or another for the various slights and hardships for which they perceive us as being responsible. That's not going to magically change simply because there are more of them and fewer of us. In all likelihood, such a state of affairs will serve to exacerbate tensions. Transition usually does.
This isn't a "melting pot." Increasingly, it is becoming a country of racial "tribes," constantly in conflict with one another. It exists as such primarily because the political powers that be benefit from encouraging such conflict.
Case in point of the above. South African whites are basically being all but driven out of the country. Some black extremist groups are even calling for outright ethnic cleansing.
The same thing happened to Lebanese Christians when the Muslims took over.
Will anything that extreme happen in the US? I doubt it. However, I have no doubt that the Al Sharptons and other assorted populist hate mongers of the American political system will leap at the opportunity to "get even" in some way or another.
Circa 1900, "whites" actually mean "descended from the English and maybe French settlers," and all those impoverished immigrant Jews, Italians, Germans, Irish, Poles and others were the scum of the American earth. Today, all Europeans are mainstream and classified as "white,"
In grand total, Irish and Italians only make up 15%-20% of the "white" US population. They make up somewhere around 10% of the total population including all races. Other ethnicities (barring the Germans, who have a somewhat unique situation) tend to be a lot smaller. They also all arrived at different times, and there was enough of a language and culture barrier between the different groups that they were never able to form any kind of monolithic cultural block that was capable of threatening the majority culture. They really had no choice but to assimilate as such.
As the chart I posted above shows, that's really not the case where this latest wave of immigration is concerned. Latinos are set to make up 30% to 40% of the total population
all by themselves by 2050. They're all arriving at roughly the same time as well, and have cultures and languages that are all largely homogeneous with one another.
I'm sorry, but, given those facts, the odds are that they're all going to wind up identifying a Hell of a lot more with one another than with the existing culture. The introduction of such a new monolithic cultural and political block into the existing political and social order
will almost certainly cause significant complications.
I've heard a lot of talk from right wingers about this mythical "white culture" that apparently every white person on the entire planet seem to adhere to, but not one single right winger can actually explain what "white culture" supposedly is.
No, it's actually largely unique to the United States. What it represents is basically the melding of all different European ethnicities and nationalities into a single, highly inter-bred, English speaking culture made of up of pan-European influences.
Make no mistake. The
primary baseline of that culture is undeniably English Protestant, as they were the original majority influence. However, it has borrowed elements from all of the peoples of various different cultures it has assimilated - primarily food and holidays.
If we could somehow pull off a similar trick with non-Europeans, that would be awesome, IMO. However, that doesn't seem to be what's happening. We're getting combatant "racial tribes" instead.