Interesting idea, but there are some problems with it. While there are not huge Indian populations in the southern cone of South America, they do exist and there are ethnic pressure groups now claiming to speak in their name. Brazil has a huge black and large Indian population, and the Brazilian government seems determined to repeat all of America’s errors re affirmative action. As for an “Anglosphere,” while there was significant British settlement in parts of Argentina, the Southern Cone’s European culture is continental: Spanish (Portuguese in Brazil) with, in Argentina and Uruguay especially, very strong Italian elements and some German elements as well.

The last consideration is that there is some degree of white flight already from these countries as their economies stagnate, Argentina being the most acute case. There has been a degree of returning to the mother country on the part of Argentines of Italian and Spanish ancestry, while anyone who spends time in New York and other big American cities can tell you there is no shortage of Argentines and Chileans in them now, legally and illegally swelling the ranks of “hispanics.” The better educated of them constitute a severe brain-drain from their homelands.

The Southern Cone might be a place for a last stand of the Europeans, but the Europeans have to be persuaded to stay there long enough. HRS

Teenagers growing up in Brazil and Argentina (I assume it’s the same for Uruguay) have the same postmodern culture as American teenagers: they watch the same movies, listen to the same music, read the same books/magazines (if they read at all), listen to leftist teachers and professors, watch the same TV shows, have the same values, hate to go to church, wear the same clothes, hear the same talk from politicians (Brazil’s government is leftist, anti-American), hate Bush, etc. Many of them may be racially white, but is this the group that’s going to grow up to take a last stand to save Western Civilization?? Or does their value to future generations reside solely in their whiteness?

I’ve been to Argentina four times and it doesn’t strike me as all that conservative. The province of Buenos Aires recently started to recognize “same sex” relationships. Television is as bad as it is here. I think the other provinces are a bit more conservative.

This makes me ask the question - where is the counter revolution? Is there any country in the Western world that’s getting more conservative?

“Is there any country in the Western world that’s getting more conservative?”

The answer - as you should know - is NO.

of course, for some silly folks here - in europe - it is america which is getting still more and more conservative

which is nonsense, as you know too well