Plunging into the future

In recent weeks there have been various news stories creating the feeling that some new threshold has been passed in our unfolding national immigration disaster. And here’s the latest sign: Phoenix, Tucson and Denver (Denver!) are now white minority cities.

Denver??!!

It was only 20 years or so ago that New York became a white minority city.

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Stephen T. writes:

A poster on another board made an excellent point about the Mexicanization of Los Angeles. The drastic degradation of this city in recent years is a symptom not only of the arrival of the corrosive values of Mestizo Mexicans who have come by the millions, but also of the pernicious absence of Anglo Americans who have LEFT in equal numbers: Our good, quiet neighbors with well-kept yards who now volunteer for Neighborhood Watch up in Seattle or Portland … their law-respecting children who aren’t spraying graffiti or joining gangs there … the studious local high-school grads who didn’t come back here after college in the MidWest … the working class who wouldn’t work for wages depressed to sub-minimum by illegal Mexicans … the moderates in the middle-class tax base … the voters who approved prop 187 by a landslide, etc. All displaced—rather than engulfed—by the incoming Third World. The terminal condition of many parts of L.A. today is due as much to the departure of these vital, quality-of-life-sustaining European American values as it is the toxic presence of the chaotic Mestizo Mexican culture. Pathology can be caused by deficiency as well as infection.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at August 27, 2006 03:39 PM | Send