Liberal thinking is, when nobody is a majority, we will all hold hands and sing “Kumbaya”.
Reality is that in neighborhoods throughly mixed among people of different races and cultures, people become suspicious and far less likely to help their neighbor.
Once again, liberal utopian dreams meet the nightmare of unexpected consequences.
Balkanization is baked into the cake.
I worked in San Francisco for 12 years. We had people from cultures the world over at work. The good news is that we all worked together from common ground.
The bad news is, when it came time to eat or hang, it was always, the white guys with the white guys, the middle easter guys with the middle eastern guys, the asians with asians, the blacks with blacks, the east Indians with east Indians, the women with women (generally by race/region/nationality as with guys above.
The human race is naturally self segregating. It is just human nature.
I pray I won’t be around when to see our balkanization. I really do.
The blacks are going to be the losers in this mix. They will go from having a non-hispanic white majority to having a hispanic white majority. Six two and even the hispanics don’t play nice with them the way the old Christian white guys did when hispanics become the dominate political power block.
The Christian faith is the only serious force for friendly ethnic integration that the world has seen. But even that, properly viewed, is a private affair, subject to ups and downs. It is fortunate that most of America identified itself nominally with Christianity as long as it has, but the bible foretells days when much faith will grow cold and it seems that this is happening now. So hello again Balkanization.
We just shared The LORD with two really nice Hispanics today. They loved us and we loved them. One of them offered that if we ever come to their area of the Country that we can stay with him and his family any time. We witness to people of all cultures and find that Christ truly does break down barriers.