This “country just becomes more and more of a hodgepodge of folks,” said Barack Obama, enthusiastically, in 2015. And a new survey finds that most other Democrats share his balkanization love affair, with 64 percent desiring the transformation of America via (im)migration and “diversity.”
Meanwhile, 80 percent of Republicans — and a slim majority of the overall population, 52 percent — believe our country “is in danger of losing its culture and identity.”
As Breitbart reports, “‘More than six in ten Democrats (64%), mostly agree that they prefer the U.S. to be made up of people from all over the world’ — instead of from American families and communities, said the survey, titled ‘Competing Visions of America: An Evolving Identity or a Culture Under Attack? Findings from the 2021 American Values Survey.’”
Thirteen percent of Republicans, five percent of Democrats, and seven percent of Independents preferred that the U.S. comprise people of mainly Western European heritage rather than being a hodgepodge, while, respectively, 57, 31, and 41 percent of these groups came down in the middle on the question.
“The late-September survey asked 2,508 Americans about various aspects of immigration and diversity,” Breitbart relates. “The results showed that Democrats are becoming increasingly radical but also that more Republicans are openly opposing their planned demographic replacement — and that Latinos increasingly dislike imposed diversity.”
Speaking of which, “About two-thirds of Americans (65%) say that the fact that ‘the United States has a diverse population … makes the country stronger, including 40% who say it makes the country much stronger,” writes PRRI.
“More than eight in ten Democrats (82%), compared to less than half of Republicans (47%), say that diversity makes the country stronger,” PRRI elaborates.
Of course, the mantra “Our strength lies in our diversity” makes as much sense as saying “Nicholas Cage is a two-stroke engine,” as pundit Ann Coulter once put it; it’s something many people espouse because it has been parroted relentlessly, but it’s a wholly unproven proposition.
In fact, why would diversity be beneficial? If it’s because certain groups have characteristic strengths others don’t — that those groups are superior in those dimensions — it could be true. But speaking of even just endeavor-specific racial, ethnic, or even sexual superiority had long been contrary to leftist ideology (except when referencing alleged white inferiority) and enough to get you “canceled.” So it would seem that leftist diversity dogma conflicts with (now passé?) leftist group-equality dogma.
As for prejudice, “About one in four Americans (23%) say that the 2020 U.S. Census finding that the white population of the United States has decreased for the first time in the country’s history is mostly positive,” PRRI further relates. This is a testimonial to the power of Critical Race Theory (CRT) propaganda.
“Democrats are four times more likely to say the decline of the white population … is mostly positive vs. negative (39% vs. 9%),” PRRI explains. “Republicans, by contrast, are more than five times less likely to say this change is positive vs. negative (6% vs. 33%). Independents are nearly twice as likely to say this change is positive vs. negative (23% vs. 13%).… A majority of Americans (59%) say it doesn’t matter either way.”
The last statistic underlines why, despite the propaganda, Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe’s anti-white race-baiting (example below) was a losing proposition and perhaps is why his re-election effort failed on Tuesday.
It would be interesting, however, seeing the age-group data on the white-replacement question given that many young people have been aggressively indoctrinated with CRT.
As for cultural upheaval, “Four in ten Americans (41%) agree with the statement ‘Things have changed so much that I often feel like a stranger in my own country,’ compared to 57% who disagree [the latter clearly never spent time in my old neighborhood],” PRRI also writes. “Three in ten Democrats (31%) agree with the idea that things have changed so much that they often feel like strangers in their own country, compared to 39% of independents and 56% of Republicans.”
As stated earlier, 52 percent of Americans believe our country “is in danger of losing its culture and identity.” Eighty percent of Republicans but only 33 percent of Democrats agree with this statement.
Further illustrating our country’s widening ideological chasm, PRRI tells us that while Democrats have become more supportive of amnesty for illegals since 2013, Republicans have become less so. Expanding on this, Breitbart writes:
PRRI president Robert Jones spotlighted the huge shift in American politics since the 1950s-era.
Back then, domestic politics were dominated by left vs. right arguments over how to distribute the huge profits generated by the nation’s huge manufacturing economy.
Those class-and-wages politics continue, but they get little attention from the establishment media since the bipartisan establishment doubled immigration in 1990. That doubling helped to stagnate wages, supercharge the stock market, and also shifted media coverage onto the “diversity” disputes that are used to break up the social norms developed by Americans to help share civic and economic wealth.
Put differently, when we were less balkanized but also not as wealthy, demagogues used class appeals to gain power; now that we’re richer but more “diverse,” the divide-and-conquer strategy is focused more on racial and ethnic appeals.
Wherever Americans come down on the cultural-change question, however, our balkanization is a reality. The United States’ population was the better part of 90-percent non-Hispanic white in the late 1960s. But the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 — which took effect in 1968 and led to a situation where 85 to 90 percent of our immigrants come from the Third World — has reduced the non-Hispanic white population share to approximately 60 percent.
This has profound political and cultural effects; for example, upon being naturalized, the majority (70 to 90 percent in America) of Third World (im)migrants have historically voted for leftists. Demagogues know this well, too. For example, Labour Party operative Andrew Neather, a former advisor to ex-British prime minister Tony Blair, confessed in 2009 that the previous 15 years’ massive immigration into the United Kingdom had been designed to “rub the Right’s nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date.”
This can reach the point of no return, too. For instance, as Swedish Social Democrat politician Mona Sahlin gleefully said in 2001 in reference to the Muslim immigration transforming her country, the “Swedes must be integrated into the new Sweden; the old Sweden is never coming back.”
And if statist demagogues believe they’ll only have unassailable power in your country’s “new” version, not its original one, such cultural genocide will be a feature, not a bug.
