The loss of Allen, the loss of Virginia, and the loss of America

George Allen has lost his U.S. Senate seat to James Webb, and as a result the Senate has now gone Democratic, and a promising conservative presidential candidacy is finished. Why did Allen go down? As discussed by Chris Cillizza in the Washington Post, Virginia is ceasing to be a Republican state, because Northern Virginia’s population has been booming,—it now contains a third of the state’s electorate—and Northern Virginia’s voters are overwhelmingly Democratic. What Cillizza does not mention is that much of the population boom in Virginia’s northern counties is due to mass non-European immigration. Nonwhite immigration dooms the Republican party to electoral extinction, and dooms America to Third-Worldom, yet Republicans keep supporting it.

Remember also that the incident that initially got the popular Allen in trouble with voters was his jocular if perhaps somewhat disrespectful remark to a young Indian American, a son of immigrants. By introducing a vast nonwhite immigrant population into America, we have created a situation in which we must walk on eggshells out of fear of saying anything negative about nonwhites, because to do so means the end of one’s career.

Yet the Republicans don’t get it. Modern liberal people (and almost all modern people are liberal) are simply unable to conceptualize the idea that mass diverse immigration as such is a problem, just as they are unable to conceptualize the idea that Islam as such is a problem. Unless the GOP, and America, and the West, cease to be liberal, they—we—are all doomed.

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Vincent C. writes:

In 1982, I returned from an overseas assignment to a house we had purchased two years before in the planned community of Reston, in Northern Virginia. At that time, a modest Southern way of life was still to be seen, but one needed only to travel a short distance to Sterling to recognize the much stronger Southern influence. Beyond was the town of Leesburg, in vast Loudin County, with its “summer vacation” homes for those who worked and lived in Washington, including Gen. George C. Marshall. The people were friendly, the drivers courteous, and the shopkeepers cordial, even if they spoke with accents often difficult for someone from New York City to understand. A quarter of a century later, those small, rural Southern towns have been transformed into wall-to-wall building developments, with Loudin having one of the highest family incomes in the country. It also has staggering traffic problems, along with the influx of many, mainly Asian and Latin, immigrants.

Two years ago, while helping in the re-election bid of a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, I began to examine the results wrought by those demographic changes. My candidate, a Republican, a lawyer, devout Christian, a Vietnam combat veteran and retired colonel in the USMC, lost to a newly-arrived-to-the-area Democrat, largely because of the new paradigm: the steadily increasing number of liberal emigres from the major cities—many arriving because of the dot.com business expansion—but also the new immigrants, almost all of whom, when they were eligible, voted Democratic. The trend mentioned by The Post reporter is not about to shift; if anything, the Allen defeat demonstrates that the problem will continue to worsen for the GOP, with the inevitable result that the permanent status of the Republican Party will be that of a minority party.

What makes Allen’s loss even more serious is that he was a popular state senator, governor and U.S. senator, whose name brought immediate recognition. During his campaign, whether advised to or not I cannot say, he, as well as his opponent, said not a word about the number of illegal aliens in Virginia, which would have been, in my judgment, beneficial to Allen, but he would not touch the issue of legal immigration either, and therein lies the irony: he had to know that the immigrant vote would be heavily tilted toward his opponent, which, as it turned out, happened. Yet he remained mute on the subject.

Slowly but surely, immigration is transforming America. The small, Southern towns that existed until 30 years ago have been engulfed in a tidal wave of unchecked immigration, coupled with the new immigrants’ studied indifference to America’s past. It is a recipe for disaster, a tragedy made more serious by this president and his acolytes who see no great damage in the loss of our past and our traditions.

Vincent C. continues:

Webb’s victory (or is it Allen’s defeat?) raises—to me, at least—the prospect that in ‘08, the Dems have something they’ve not been able to mount in decades: a politically proven Southern candidate who is acceptable to large segments of the normally aligned Republican voting base. I would think that the Clinton campaign people are not oblivious to such a VP candidate.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at November 09, 2006 02:38 PM | Send