[koba]

You have written about this many times. Do you think America will be intact by the year 2020, or so? What do you think will happen? I mean, Yugoslavia broke up, the Soviet Union broke up, do you see this happening in America?

[Travis McGee]

Well, history rarely moves in straight predictable lines, so any prediction is just a guess.

But the Kosovo model seems apt on many levels.

At a certain demographic tipping point, it becomes impossible for a border region to control its frontier, since local governments are controlled by pro open immigration recent immigrants. This process really snowballs into an unstoppable avalanche in the later stages, which we are approaching.

Once the border states become majority Mexican, the radicals will become emboldened, and push for Spanish only laws and other flagrant displays of power. The most radical will snipe "anglo" police and politicians to provoke a response, the radicals will flee into the barrios. The police response will create collateral victims, and (the radicals hope) new recruits to the radical cause.

I think we could see terrorism and guerrilla war in the Southwest within 20 years. I would not buy real estate within 100 or 200 miles of the border.

I hope I'm wrong, but I recall how the Kosovo Serbs used to love their "cheap Albanian labor".

[FITZ]

This is an example of what is going on in some places --it was a letter to the editor today in a newspaper in a town seriously affected by immigration, this area was once slightly better than the national avearage in wages $104 to $100 in the 50's, but it's dropped to $57 to $100 in the last census. It's not just Anglos leaving though ---middle class Americans of all backgrounds (including Hispanic) are leaving as the Mexicans are moving in:

Driving wedges
from http://www.borderlandnews.com/stories/opinion/letters/letter.shtml

I believe there is a racial divide in El Paso, and much of it can be traced back to the past few decades of Mexican-American militancy, particularly the movements of the 1960s and '70s.

Many of the student leaders of Chicano movements are now a part of the "establishment." However, they did not outgrow the ideas they developed during those years. Rather, many continue to promote a racialist agenda, driving wedges between groups in El Paso.

They may be unaware it is happening, but one look at the demographics during the past few years paints an unflattering picture of what has happened. Much of the Anglo population has left El Paso. Mexican Americans are in the majority and have leadership roles in the community, and yet these former student leaders continue to cite racism as a reason for the problems in El Paso.

These people's agenda is wearing thin. But this does not deter them, and many will keep their racialist strategies in place, as long as there is a potential benefit for them. However, they do not seem to care if the community is helped or hurt by their actions.