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How a 1965 law changed the faces of America
The Economist ^ | 9/30/2015 | V.V.B.

Posted on 10/05/2015 5:01:43 AM PDT by 1010RD

By 2055 no racial or ethnic group will constitute a majority of the American population. Non-Hispanic whites will account for less than half of the population compared with 62% today and 84% in 1965. The Pew report shows that without any immigration after the 1965 Immigration Act, America’s population today would be 75% white, 14% black, 8% Hispanic and less than 1% Asian.

This shift in America’s ethnic make-up is a huge change for a country that was mainly populated by white immigrants from Europe until 1965. But as Mr Passel points out, each wave of new immigrants was initially eyed with suspicion by America’s residents. In the 1840s a wave of Irish and Germans arrived, most of them Catholic, to a hostile reception by Anglo-Saxon protestants. A next wave included Italians and Jews from Poland, Ukraine and Russia, who were again made unwelcome by the established locals thanks to their alien customs, religion and languages. “Today we see our immigration history with rose-tinted glasses,” says Mr Passel, but each new group had a rough start.

(Excerpt) Read more at economist.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1965immigrationact; immigration
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Government desperately needs new sources of revenue to prop up the failed socialist model implemented by Democrats.

The Deep State is the real enemy and it exists at the local, county, state and federal level. Every government employee knows where their bread is buttered.

Government schools teach pro-government propaganda to your kids. The next generation has been groomed.

1 posted on 10/05/2015 5:01:43 AM PDT by 1010RD
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BFLR
2 posted on 10/05/2015 5:03:01 AM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: 1010RD

However, those groups came here and assimilated. We’re not seeing that today.


3 posted on 10/05/2015 5:06:06 AM PDT by ealgeone
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However, those groups came here and assimilated.

So very true. When you have those of like mind who embrace freedom and understand how we obtained and how to keep those freedoms, the differences between us fade away.

OTOH, we are not obligated to entertain the demands of degenerates who come to our shores and demand that we change to accommodate their socialist views. That's an invasion and we are compelled to resist them with everything we've got.

4 posted on 10/05/2015 5:08:58 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: ealgeone

Many came here to learn English, work hard , and fit in. today many come here who refuse to speak English, demand we speak Spanish, many want freebies and have no desire to be proud of America.


5 posted on 10/05/2015 5:11:54 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: 1010RD

Actually, there were more events in 1965 or thereabouts that changed America. The Civil Rights Act and many other related changes changed American culture profoundly in not always wonderful ways.


6 posted on 10/05/2015 5:12:46 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: Chainmail; 1010RD

Actually, there were more events in 1965 or thereabouts that changed America. The Civil Rights Act and many other related changes changed American culture profoundly in not always wonderful ways.


True, but THIS article, as the headline implies and the story explains, is about the 1965 immigration law that changed the FACES of America.


7 posted on 10/05/2015 5:16:01 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Jane Long

To be utterly frank:

The destruction of White America is the destruction of America, period.

That’s what the elites seek.

No other demographic on the planet obstructs their agenda.


8 posted on 10/05/2015 5:18:36 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
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To: 1010RD

The revenue is important, but I think ideology is just as, if not more than important in this modern method of conquering a land and people.


9 posted on 10/05/2015 5:21:20 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: 1010RD

We are a nation of immigrants, and I have no problem with immigration. Legal immigration.

What I can’t stand are people jumping the line past some who have been waiting literally decades to immigrate to the United States, stealing identification of Americans, getting paid sub-par wages, and not paying taxes.


10 posted on 10/05/2015 5:22:08 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag necessary?)
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To: Chainmail

How about the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the abuses it granted government aka Democrats?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965


11 posted on 10/05/2015 5:23:43 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Chainmail

Actually, there were more events in 1965 or thereabouts that changed America.

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Agree that this one only one of many things happening in the early 60s that changed the USA.

The Kennedy election, Civil rights marches, beginnings of the Vietnam conflict, and others
etc. were all a part of the changes that were coming to the USA and the World scene. JMO.


12 posted on 10/05/2015 5:24:18 AM PDT by deport
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By 2055 the Democrat Party will have invented, like they did with Latinos and are doing with Arabs both groups which were always considered “white,” a whole bunch of previously unknown “minorities” which they can keep alienated with fabricated grievances from participating in the melting pot. It’s what leftwingers do.
They are having a hard time being convincing everyone of new “races” anymore and so have begun making disgruntled minority group voting blocs of “trangenders,” and “homosexuals,” and who knows what next... maybe “gingers,” “albinos,” “skinnys,” “valley girls” or whatever. Why not Tutsis and Hutus...


13 posted on 10/05/2015 5:27:20 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: knarf

Culture is king.


14 posted on 10/05/2015 5:28:41 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: T-Bone Texan

> The destruction of White America is the destruction of America, period.

That’s what the elites seek.

And one Muslim descendent from the lineage of Cain who,worships Satan accelerated it tenfold


15 posted on 10/05/2015 5:29:35 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: jsanders2001

It’s 11:59 on Radio Free America; this is Uncle Sam, with music, and the truth until dawn. Right now I’ve got a few words for some of our brothers and sisters in the occupied zone: “the chair is against the wall, the chair is against the wall”, “john has a long mustache, john has a long mustache”. It’s twelve o’clock, America, another day closer to victory. And for all of you out there, on, or behind the line, this is your song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az5DBgVzdxc
Wolverines!!!!!!


16 posted on 10/05/2015 5:37:24 AM PDT by itsLUCKY2B (?Borders, Language, and Culture.?)
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To: piasa

Our word for devil comes from the Greek word diabolos which means properly, a slanderer; a false accuser; unjustly criticizing to hurt (malign) and condemn to sever a relationship.

Note the final goal of the slanderer “to sever a relationship”. Isn’t that what you do when you break people up into little groups and separate them? Isn’t America, the idea of America, the exact opposite?

E Pluribus Unum is our motto.

The Progs motto is Divide et impera. Anti-Americanism is a real thing.


17 posted on 10/05/2015 5:42:06 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: 1010RD

Thank you Teddy Kennedy, you communist bastard.


18 posted on 10/05/2015 5:49:19 AM PDT by Rumplemeyer (The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
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To: 1010RD

Gotta hand it to those Kennedys. From this to the Borking of Robert Bork to No Child Left Behind....they never stopped thinking years and decades ahead in their ruthless pursuit of power.


19 posted on 10/05/2015 5:53:57 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: T-Bone Texan

How/what do the elites benefit from drastically reducing/eliminating their race?


20 posted on 10/05/2015 7:19:26 AM PDT by ncpatriot
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