America no longer white, united, English-speaking

The Miami Herald ^ | 02 April 2004 | Patrick J. Buchanan

[MegaSilver]

In 1960, when JFK defeated Nixon, America was a nation of 160 million, 90 percent white and 10 percent black, with a few million Hispanics and Asians sprinkled among us.

We were one nation, one people. We worshipped the same God, spoke the same English language, studied American history and English literature, honored the same heroes, read the same books, watched the same TV shows, went to the same movies and saw ourselves as defenders of Western civilization against the godless communism of the Soviet Empire.

We were confident and proud of who we were. That was yesterday. But due to the Immigration Act of 1965 and the cultural revolution of the '60s, that America is now gone forever. And as one studies the latest projections of the Census Bureau, the America of our grandchildren will be another country altogether, a nation unrecognizable to our parents, a giant Brazil of the North.

In 2050, there will be three times as many people living here as in 1960 -- 420 million. White Americans will be a minority, 49 percent, and falling. Hispanics in the United States, more than 100 million, will be equal to the population of today's Mexico. Our Asian population will be almost as large as our African-American population today.

By countries of origin, America will be a Third World nation. Our cities will look like Los Angeles today. Los Angeles and the cities of Texas, Arizona and California will look like Mexico City.

Writing in Foreign Policy, Harvard Professor Samuel Huntington, author of Who We Are, raises an alarm about the huge infusion of Hispanics into the Southwest, and for many reasons.

Much of this mass immigration is illegal. Vast numbers are coming here only to work. They are not assimilating. They do not want to become Americans. They are concentrating in states bordering Mexico, which is their country and a nation with a historic grievance against us. They are holding on to their language and culture, creating a Hispanic nation within our nation. By 2050, there will be scores of millions of people living here whose loyalty is to a foreign country.

Moreover, as multiculturalism has captured our schools and colleges, immigrant children will have prejudices and grievances against America and the West reinforced as they learn. The academic elite that controls these schools already paints America as a nation with a rancid history of genocide, slavery, racism, oppression and imperialism.

Is the Census Bureau future the future that Americans wish? No. Are they willing to risk it for their grandchildren? No.

Why, then, does that future appear inevitable?

Answer: Though a majority of Americans wish to preserve the land they grew up in for their children, our elites -- political, academic, cultural and corporate -- are either unwilling to conserve that America or indifferent to its disappearance.

Most Americans want immigration cut back and all illegal aliens sent back. Why is the will of the majority, expressed in polls and referenda, not reflected in law or policy? Because we no longer live in a democratic republic; we are ruled by a managerial elite.

America's corporate elites want an endless supply of cheap labor. Our judges throw out popularly enacted laws to which they object. Our academic elites work to see ''white, racist America'' disappear. Our neo-Marxist cultural elites wish to be the gravediggers of the West and of Christian culture. And America's conservative party, the Republican Party, believes that Hispanics hold the key to retention of presidential power and is anxious not to offend Mexican President Vicente Fox.

If, by 2050, the America we grew up in has become a Tower of Babel of squabbling minorities that is falling apart, it will be because of the treason of the elites, and our lack of will to overthrow them.

[MegaSilver]

While I don't particularly care for Patrick Buchanan, and the title of this piece is rather racist in tone, I'd say this is one of those times when he hits one home.

[cyborg]

More Pat blather

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[cyborg]

It's not as if the issues of illegal immigration isn't being by other people. Other people are talking about it, but Pat Buchanan is a racist nutter.

[quidnunc]

Taliban Pat up to his usual vile tricks.

His demogoguery falls apart under close examnination because most Latinos are white.

[cynicom]

"And America's conservative party, the Republican Party"

Where does Pat get the impression that the republican party is conservative???? The elites own and operate both parties.

[garbanzo]

By countries of origin, America will be a Third World nation.

Of course this isn't racist at all because we all know that only white people can run a first world country. And people wonder why Pat isn't taken seriously.

[garbanzo]

His demogoguery falls apart under close examnination because most Latinos are white.

And Catholic. Like Pat.

[RightWhale]

We were one nation, one people.

Barbra Streisand

[M Kehoe]

He has some salient points.

5.56mm

[Dog Gone]

and the title of this piece is rather racist in tone

The whole article is racist in fact.

[RonHolzwarth]

Paraphrased:

Though a majority of Americans wished to preserve the land they grew up in for their children, the super weapons defeated them.

Most Americans wanted immigration cut back and all illegal aliens sent back. Why was the will of the majority, not reflected in law or policy?













America, 1492

[El Gato]

Our cities will look like Los Angeles today. Los Angeles and the cities of Texas, Arizona and California will look like Mexico City.

San Antonio has almost always been a Tejano dominated city. (Not quite, at the turn of the 18 to 19th century there were more Gringos, mostly Germanic but also Scots-Irish, than Latinos, but the Hispanic "flavor" was still evident). In any event, even today when the "Mexicans" far outnumber us Gringos, it still doesn't look like Mexico City. While there are lots of new immigrants, legal and (mostly) otherwise, San Antonio is also known as Military City, USA, and sends a higher percentage of its sons and daughters to the military than most any city of comparable size. We've lost quite a few of those in Iraq, I might add. One was a kid who attended high school just a couple of miles from me.

[ampat]

I think Pat just described the rise and fall of the United States of America. He isn't a racist. He just wants immigrants to come here legally and assimilate. The great melting pot is no longer. We have groups of hypenated americans who prefer not to be plain americans. They want their own cultures to predominate. A house divided cannot stand, or United we stand, divided we fall. The USA will crumble from within in another hundred years.

[iconoclast]

Where does Pat get the impression that the republican party is conservative???? The elites own and operate both parties.

I believe Pat said pretty much the same thing in the very next paragraph.

Did your lips get tired before you read that far?

[wardaddy]

most Latinos are white.

I would argue that. Most Cubans and South American spanish speaking immigrants are indeed Caucazoid primarily but the massive waves of Mexican and Central American legal and illegal immigrants are not. They are primarily either pure Amerindians or Meztizos.

[Arthur McGowan]

I fail to see where Pat said anything about Latinos' being white or not white. I also fail to see where he says that he is alarmed about America not being white. I see him saying that he is alarmed about America no longer having the same culture that it once had.

[El Gato]

18 to 19th

Oops I meant 19th to 20th. That is around 1900.

[cynicom]

Must be you are reading a different version than mine.

[William Terrell]

Most latinos are brown. Those that come from Spain and are European are white.

[Keltik]

God Bless Pat Buchanan!

[cynicom]

Those that desire to wave the "racist" flag will read into it what they want to see.

[cyborg]

If he wasn't so alarmed why would he talk about Asians? If he is just worried about illegal immigration from Mexico, then why mention that? I think Pat has a chip on his shoulder. BTW, what culture? The culture of everyone knowing their place? Today is better than yesterday and personally I have no desire to return to the good ole days.

[dljordan]

Why is he a racist? Because he points out problems with unlimited immigration? Because he wants to protect the Republic? Because he doesn't follow the Fuzzy Wuzzy, PC, multi-cult party line? Just curious.

[Arthur McGowan]

The elites want to destroy self-government. They harness the power of the "victim groups" by dangling government money and special rights in front of them.

Government goodies (especially free "education" in government child-warehouses) and all group rights need to be abolished. A free market encourages integration, learning the language, assimilating to the dominant culture.

[cyborg]

Pat Buchanan is a racist. Believe what you want. He's a anti-semitic horse's ass to boot who was against the war in Iraq. Does that satisfy your curiousity?

[tahiti]

"He's completely wrong. It doesn't matter if we become factionalized, hyphenated "Americans"."

I am not sure that you are be facitious or not.

So, jsut in case your are not, I think you need to re-read the following paragraph composed by Pat Buchanan.

This is the crux of the matter:

"Much of this mass immigration is illegal. Vast numbers are coming here only to work. They are not assimilating. They do not want to become Americans. They are concentrating in states bordering Mexico, which is their country and a nation with a historic grievance against us. They are holding on to their language and culture, creating a Hispanic nation within our nation."

If the immigrants are legal and wish to assimilate, I would suggest that most current citizens would have not problem with Mexican immigrants.

[Cronos]

By countries of origin, America will be a Third World nation.

What crap is this? Pat's going more and more ga-ga...

[Cronos]

We worshipped the same God,

Which world were YOU living in Pat? in the 60s there was still talk that a Catholic was being elected, and you know, Catholics (like YOU Pat), don't believe in Jesus Christ....

[wardaddy]

Aside from Japan and a few Pacific rim nations, can you think of any other "Non-White" "First World" nations aside from maybe Bermuda or Cayman?

I'm really not here to fight with you at all but there seems a disconnect around here sometimes between reality and paltitudes.

The fact is that aside from the few nations I just mentioned, there are no non-white First World nations at this time and those that once where and where whites have lost power are backsliding. That's the reality.



I think Pat misses the boat here by emphasizing race rather than culture which is the relevant key to me. Productive culture is not always race or ethnicity defined.

Regards.

[Torie]

Pat seems pessimistic that anybody but white Europeans can make good Americans. How shocking. I wonder if he knows that only 20% of third generation Hispanics in the US speak Spanish as their daily language at home. Pat probably doesn't care, even if he knows. They're brown (except of course the ones that are not); end of story.

Pat also bemoans that the Asian population by 2050 will be as large as the black population of today. What do you think of Asians Pat? Worried that your grandkids won't be able to compete with them. Oh, I forgot, you don't have kids. What kind of example is that for preserving the white European face of America, Pat?

I like Pat. He's so good for target practice.

[Cronos]

because we all know that only white people can run a first world country.

Yes, those Japanese and Koreans and Singaporeans are really white folks.....

[cynicom]

Have to love it when people trot out the "racist flag" then tag on the "anti-semetic flag" when they have no way of refuting the facts.

[janetgreen]

Tower of Babel of squabbling minorities that is falling apart

California - invaded by millions of illegal aliens from failed, third world regimes, lured by the guarantee of endless freebies paid for by Americans. California is now bankrupt, but the freebies for illegal aliens continue.

This is one issue that Buchanan has always been right about.

[k2blader]

What does being white or not have to do with it?

That's my main problem with the piece.

[iconoclast]

We have groups of hyphenated Americans who prefer not to be plain Americans. They want their own cultures to predominate.

Yes, but the Pat-bashers are blind to history and lack even common sense. You could say "Pat" Boone in their presence and they would go off in the tirade that automatically follows their knee-jerk reaction to the letters P-a-t.

They've been totally conditioned to this response by the same people that hijacked their party.

[Torie]

Maybe we should start of list of white non first world countries. I'll start first. Argentina. Your turn.

[wardaddy]

I see him saying that he is alarmed about America no longer having the same culture that it once had.

I did not read the article sadly but I share that view emphatically. In fact, that is my major beef with illegal immigration aside from the immediate practical concerns. I know of no nation or culture in history to have surrendered so easily as ours nor to think that surrendering is wonderful and the "right thing". We have many on what is arguably the largest conservative site in the USA cheering on the demise of our founding culture....that says plenty doesn't it?

[LWalk18]

Hey, Arabs are white by the definition of the U.S. Census- why isn't Europe thriving by the influx of millions of white Arabs? They are the same race as Europeans.

[janetgreen]

If the immigrants are legal and wish to assimilate, I would suggest that most current citizens would have not problem with Mexican immigrants.

You're right, it's the invasion of illegal aliens that is resented. Most Mexican-Americans resent them too, because they're taking jobs away by working for peanuts.

[knarf]

IMO, the data articulated by Pat is correct ... the numbers of white and non-white, for instance.

If that's true, and the comparison of now vs. 40 years ago is also true ... one would have to determine if there is value in contemplatinmg the prospect of increasing or decreasing those numbers.

This is the thought pattern of the policy makers.

Given we are supposed to be represented in government and not dictated to, we are then forced to recognise that the imigration pattern is not in sync with the desires and expectations of those of us whom claim to be American.

An argument can be made (and often is) regarding the definition of an American, thereby clouding the original point of discussion, which was a statement regarding the ethnic and racial make-up of America.

All that being said ... I think discourse amongst ourselves should be better directed towards idea sharing and opinion rather than the socialist tactic of saying Pat's a nut.

Don't you agree?

[ARA]

What year is he from?

Curious

ARA

[Torie]

White Americans will be a minority, 49 percent, and falling.

Pat said it; not me. He could have said that X percent by X date will hew to Western European cultural norms or something; he did not. Pat is a color coder.

[Lazamataz]

Pat Buchanan seems to be wistfully sighing throughout this piece, wishing for the Lily-White America, devoid of anu pesky minorities.

I'd say this article is the clearest example of the racism he's often accused of.

[cyborg]

Blind to history? Where are you from? My father's family emigrated over here from Italy and the establishment of the day said the same thing about Italians to the point of discrimination that many black people had better living conditions. So some of us 'Pat bashers' are not coming from a knee jerk reaction. Whatever.

[wardaddy]

There are plenty....The "Stans", Albania, The Arab World, Iran,.....are you seeing a pattern here yet Torie?

Argentina has only themselves to blame....they should have been First World long ago. Chile is almost First World in my view...as is Costa Rica....both are rather White Hispano nations btw same as Argentina which is the "whitest" nation in Latin America.


Can you think of a non-white First World nation aside from Japan or Singapore or South Korea? I can't.

[iconoclast]

Must be you are reading a different version than mine.

Pat wrote: If, by 2050, the America we grew up in has become a Tower of Babel of squabbling minorities that is falling apart, it will be because of the treason of the elites, and our lack of will to overthrow them.