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Sailer on the key to GOP—and American—survival
Steve Sailer has re-linked an article he wrote last May at vdare, “Affordable Family Formation”—the Neglected Key to GOP’s Future.” He has touched on these ideas many times before, but here he has pulled them together into an impressive thesis. Whether a state votes Republican is very highly correlated with the percentage of white women of child-bearing age who are married, which is correlated with the presence of affordable housing in decent neighborhoods with decent public schools, which is correlated with the amount of land available for suburban development around the major cities. One evident meaning of this is: Republican voters represent intact marriages and the raising of children, and thus the life and well-being and continuity of society. While Sailer’s focus is more on the health of the GOP than on that of America, the two would appear to be, to use his favorite concept, highly correlated. Also, he repeatedly returns to the point that mass immigration increases demand for housing, which raises the price of housing, which makes family formation unaffordable, which makes a state go Democratic. The classic example is the mutation of the once-Republican state of California into an unassailable Democratic stronghold. Once again, what is good for the GOP—cutting immigration—is good for America. My discomfort with Sailer’s reductionist approach to all things human has to be put aside by admiration for the impressive and original work he has done in this area.
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