By 2042, the non-Hispanic white population of the United States will be officially less than 50%. This is a fact. This is a foregone conclusion. You can decide if this is good or bad, depending on your politics or personal opinion proclivities.
But one thing for sure - Pat Buchanan and Lou Dobbs (who will be long dead by then… well, Lou will) had better start embracing very robust affirmative action laws, and put them into at least a 50 year sunset. All of their caterwauling about immigrants, illegal and legal, will do nothing to stop the sea change.
But the very policies that they embrace and advocate, by 2042, will be the policies they would not want to be subject to as 49% of the population. Oh, how things will be changed as a white minority crys for hand outs, equal representation, and “fair” treatment. Alas, those that have been subjugated, mistreated, slandered, and used for political fodder, will exact some serious vengeance.
The right wing nutto’s like Michele Bachmann had better look long term, and plan for the inevitable and how you will be judged on how you acted from 2010 to 2040. But, that’s right. All they really care about is quarterly profits for stockholders of companies that fill their coffers to get re-elected. So it goes, as Vonnegut would say.
To be so blind as to continue to treat immigrants and minorities as stupid, poor and criminal is to deserve that will happen when you become “one of them.” Befriend a Mexican now, and have a very good African American pal, cause in 30 years, you will need all the chums you can get that are not as white as James Inhofe. Or Tom Tancredo. Yea. Let’s line him up first.
Thirty years is not a long time… http://northcalcofcc.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/whites-in-the-minority-by-2042-us-census-predicts/.
And, here is Tancredo at his best. Enjoy:
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