I have been very involved in local GOP politics participating in GOTV efforts, poll watcher, election officer, delegate to state conventions, etc. If we don't do something about immigration, everything else doesn't matter.
Posted on 10/30/2019 6:09:41 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
At one time the entire USA South was Democrat...it changed!!! You got the votes...they are just disgusted with weal, inactive leadership in the GOP!!! If ya want to win the political wars....you gotta get out there and fight and vote...all of you GOP folks. Bitching is no way to go this life!!! Action stirs the pudding!!! Get out in vote...period!!!
Yea, so many VA Republicans are too demoralized to bother to vote.
Except that ours are even worse.
I’ve seen some serious - and nefarious - changes to what was once a reliably conservative state. The cities north of Fredricksburg look like turd-world hovels. Gone are the pristine neighborhoods and American-owned stores, and in their place are trashy slums with Section-8 apartments, low-grade strip malls and foreigners everywhere. It’s not America anymore up there.
The area was originally built for people that were relocating to work at the DOD contractor Martin Marietta. The area really was beatiful, then came desegregation and forced busing of blacks into the area. My younger sister (white) was bused far away to a primarily black school and she got beat up almost every day.
I've heard that it is much, much worse now.
Maybe so.
it won’t stay all white for long.
I have been very involved in local GOP politics participating in GOTV efforts, poll watcher, election officer, delegate to state conventions, etc. If we don't do something about immigration, everything else doesn't matter.
I just saw a similar situation in a suburb north of Cincinnati. I was there ten years ago for a tennis tournament, and I was there again this summer. I stayed at the same motel and visited the same Wal Mart each time. This time around was a shock. The Wal Mart looked like a combination of Central America and the Middle East. I’m not exaggerating when I say at least 90% of the people in the store were yammering away in Spanish or had burkas, headscarves or Muslim beards. When I saw another white person, it was a surprise. This was a complete change from ten years ago. I felt like an American tourist in a foreign land.
Foreign born in America
In 1960. 9.6 million. 4.7% of total population
In 2010. 40 million. 12.9%. of total population
I keep asking this question, but never seem to get any clear answers. Exactly what is this area that is "theirs" you speak of? What did those claiming ownership do to acquire these areas, to defend it, to enjoy it, to bequeath it to their posterity?
The answer of course is that no one who typically asserts citizenship, ownership, control, sovereignty, etc has ever done a damn thing to deserve those distinctions. Rather, we all showed up fresh in our mother's arms, grew up someplace others had carved out for us, developed into entitled and expectant adults, and complain loudly when other, far more aggressive, hungry and desperate denizens simply rip it from our grasp.
We need to also be cognizant that the leadership class plays an important part in encouraging this dynamic by allowing millions up millions of foreign born to gain access, enjoy provided funds, and in general enable in these efforts to conquer the land for themselves and *their* posterity. After all, what's good for the goose is good for the gander, amirite?
The bottom line is nothing is nobody's - you have to continually fight, defend and keep if you want to enjoy. And this means not only foreign invaders but internal, domestic traitors as well. How long has it taken for regular US citizens to wake up to this fact? Why do people still respect the military which plays -0- part in actually defending the natural territory & borders? How long will the common man continue to play his part as deluded serf faithfully adhering to the propaganda fed since childhood and still being gaslighted to this day?
Don't cry and don't complain - rather, understand, watch and wait.
The nation’s immigrant population (legal and illegal) hit a record 44.5 million in July 2017, an increase of nearly 800,000 since 2016, 4.6 million since 2010, and 13.4 million since 2000.
It is worth noting that the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS), released the same week but collected in March 2018, shows 45.4 million immigrants, an increase of 1.6 million over the prior year. While the CPS is smaller than the ACS, the newer survey may indicate the pace of growth has accelerated.
As a share of the U.S. population, the ACS (used in the remainder of this report) shows that immigrants (legal and illegal) comprised 13.7 percent or nearly one out of seven U.S. residents in 2017, the highest percentage in 107 years. As recently as 1980, just one out of 16 residents was foreign-born.
Between 2010 and 2017, 9.5 million new immigrants settled in the United States. New arrivals are offset by roughly 320,000 immigrants who return home each year and natural mortality of about 290,000 annually among the existing immigrant population.2 As a result, growth in the immigrant population was 4.6 million from 2010 to 2017.3
In addition to immigrants, there were 17.1 million U.S.-born minor children with an immigrant parent in 2017, for a total of 61.6 million immigrants and their children in the country — accounting for one in five U.S. residents.4
Of immigrants who have come since 2010, 13 percent or 1.2 million came from Mexico — by far the top sending country. However, because of return migration and natural mortality among the existing population, the overall Mexican-born population actually declined by 441,190.5
The sending regions with the largest numerical increases from 2016 to 2017 in the number of immigrants living in the United States were South America (up 233,696); East Asia (up 226,728); South Asia (up 216,495); Sub-Saharan Africa (up 149,846); the Caribbean (up 121,120); and Central America (up 71,720).6
Looking longer term, the regions with the largest numerical increases since 2010 were East Asia, (up 1,118,937); South Asia (up 1,106,373); the Caribbean (up 676,023); Sub-Saharan Africa (up 606,835); South America (up 483,356); Central America (up 474,504); and the Middle East (up 472,554).
The decline in Mexican immigrants masks, to some extent, the enormous growth of Latin American immigrants. If seen as one region, the number from Latin America (excluding Mexico) grew 426,536 in just the last year and 1.6 million since 2010 — significantly more than from any other part of the world.
The sending countries with the largest numerical increases in immigrants in the United States between 2010 and 2017 were India (up 830,215); China (up 677,312); the Dominican Republic (up 283,381); the Philippines (up 230,492); Cuba (up 207,124); El Salvador (up 187,783); Venezuela (up 167,105); Colombia (up 146,477); Honduras (up 132,781); Guatemala (up 128,018); Nigeria (up 125,670); Brazil (up 111,471); Vietnam (up 102,026); Bangladesh (up 95,005); Haiti (up 92,603); and Pakistan (up 92,395).
The sending countries with the largest percentage increases in immigrants since 2010 were Nepal (up 120 percent); Burma (up 95 percent); Venezuela (up 91 percent); Afghanistan (up 84 percent); Saudi Arabia (up 83 percent); Syria (up 75 percent); Bangladesh (up 62 percent); Nigeria (up 57 percent); Kenya (up 56 percent); India (up 47 percent); Iraq (up 45 percent); Ethiopia (up 44 percent); Egypt (up 34 percent); Brazil (up 33 percent); the Dominican Republic (up 32 percent); Ghana (up 32 percent); China (up 31 percent); Pakistan (up 31 percent); and Somalia (up 29 percent).
The states with the largest numerical increases since 2010 were Florida (up 721,298); Texas (up 712,109); California (up 502,985); New York (up 242,769); New Jersey (up 210,481); Washington (up 173,891); Massachusetts (up 172,908); Pennsylvania (up 154,701); Virginia (up 151,251); Maryland (up 124,241); Georgia (123,009); Michigan (up 116,059); North Carolina (up 110,279); and Minnesota (up 107,760).
The states with the largest percentage increases since 2010 were North Dakota (up 87 percent); Delaware (up 37 percent); West Virginia (up 33 percent); South Dakota (up 32 percent); Wyoming (up 30 percent); Minnesota (up 28 percent); Nebraska (up 28 percent); Pennsylvania (up 21 percent); Utah (up 21 percent); and Tennessee, Kentucky, Michigan, Florida, Washington, and Iowa (all up 20 percent).
I’m in the home stretch of my career here in the Old Dominion. Once I hit retirement, Mrs. Spook and I are heading for Tennessee. Virginia is a lost cause; the only thing that would save the commonwealth are a) an end to the civil war within the state Republican Party, and a 20-year hiring freeze for most federal agencies.
How all things progressive tie together.
High spending leads to high taxes, which means two parents hve to work to pay teh bills. Taht leads to more (leftist) day care and more (leftist) “free” public “schooling.” That produces more little lefties.
Also, low taxes not only lead to more parents at home, but to more poor, unskilled people working, which means less dependence on “progressive” politicians.
So all of these things work together to move the left closer to the absolute power they desperately crave. They do not care about anything else, and their insistence that they actually do (when we can see right through them) is offensive. (See my sig.)
I grew up in West Springfield in the 60s. It was a great place to live. Lived in Fairfax county 20 years. Moved to western Loudoun county and lived there 30 years.
Sold our house and left 2 years ago. Fairfax is all leftist and Loudoun is no different. The people who screwed up Fairfax are now screwing up Loudoun.
Stop that, the GOPe likes the cheap labor.
I lived in Northern Virginia most of my life. Moved out in 2004. Go back to Tysons Corner Shopping Center and watch the crowds. The immigrants have taken over the area.
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