Demography Is Still Destiny

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The Trump victory has been such a seismic event that people are still trying to understand and explain it. Something that baffled both Republicans and Democrats was President Trump’s waning white support and increased non-white support.

This has led to questions — even by our uncompromising staff writer Gregory Hood — about one of the basic assumptions of white advocacy: that demography is destiny.

There’s no need to go deeply into the data, but Mr. Trump’s 54 percent share of Hispanic men was a massive 32-point swing in his favor from four years ago. Some white advocates were startled to note that this meant they were two percent more likely than white women to vote Trump. Black women voted just as enthusiastically for Miss Harris as for Mr. Biden, but one in five black men voted Republican — a modern record. Overall white support for Mr. Trump slipped from 58 to 55 percent.

Richard Hanania — a race-realist but not a white advocate — thinks these data justified a blog post with the title, “Time to Retire ‘Demographics is Destiny’.”

Conservatives pride themselves on being IQ realists, or being the people who take demographic realities seriously and don’t romanticize the poor. Yet rightists also think that few things are as important as making sure that the underclass in America remains white. . . .

I see the demographics as destiny argument as in effect a withdrawal from intellectual and political life. . . . As long as they make sure that fewer Mexicans are around, the white fatsos will save us by the sheer weight of their numbers. The love of liberty beats in their clogged hearts.

This contemptuous passage shows how little Dr. Hanania understands white advocacy. We don’t want an underclass, but if we must have one, it should be of our people: English-speaking, old-stock Europeans whose ancestors helped settle and build the United States.

Dr. Hanania seems to think whites should want Republican victories no matter how they are achieved and no matter who votes for them, but the GOP promotes white interests only indirectly or by accident. I know of not one elected official in the whole country who openly says whites deserve to remain a majority in the United States. It’s silly to pretend the GOP represents white interests. We are for Republicans only to the extent that they are better for us than Democrats.

A British analyst, Ben Wright, makes a similar but less disdainful argument: “The result certainly counters old ideas about ethnic minorities naturally skewing towards the political Left and being in favour of higher immigration.” There was, of course, never any reason for blacks to favor immigration, since it brought in low-wage workers who compete with them.

But Mr. Wright is surely correct to point out that certainly some Hispanics, and even a number of black men, scorn current Democrat fetishes: sexual confusion, coddling criminals, and language policing. Last year, Pew Research found that only 4 percent of American Hispanics use the “gender-neutral” barbarism “Latinx.” South of the border, the number is even smaller, and people laugh at anyone who says amigue (sexless friend) rather than amigo (male friend) or amiga (female friend). It’s no wonder non-whites voted against a woman who couldn’t hide her “woke” past, no matter how hard she tried.

And let us not forget what voters of all races cared about most: the economy. Only in the minds of unhinged white people and a few non-whites was a vote for Trump a vote for “white supremacy.” It was a vote for better jobs and lower prices. And it was the paycheck-to-paycheck class — of all races — that pushed Mr. Trump over the top. These are the people Democrats used to care about before they started pushing sex-change surgery for prisoners and illegals.

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As I have written elsewhere, compared to Mr. Trump’s two previous campaigns, the media made this one more about “Trump the fascist” than Trump the “racist.” Again, only hopped-up white people — especially white women — worried about losing “our democracy.” I suspect some number of black and Hispanic men prefer a tough-talking man for president over a cackling woman.

What about Donald Trump’s promise to deport all illegals? That probably did scare off some Hispanics, but voters are supposed to be — and almost always are — citizens. Many Hispanic voters, especially if they are taxpayers, are surely offended by the millions who marched across the border, turned themselves into la migra, settled into nice hotels, and are living on handouts.

And look who’s coming. These days, Mexicans are only about one third of the illegals, and they have no love for Central Americans, who are the second largest group. And all voting Hispanics must be utterly bewildered to see Somalis, Haitians, Mauritanians, Bhutanese, and who knows who else on bread lines in “sanctuary cities.” Hispanics can be incensed at this without having the slightest sympathy for white advocacy. They voted to stop the insanity, not to benefit white people.

In his commentary on the election, Gregory Hood wrote this:

On one level, a core premise of American white advocacy is in question. Many have always argued that if mass non-white immigration continues, Republicans are finished. Republicans won a majority of only the white vote, so this still seems true at some level. However, with Hispanics moving increasingly Republican, some may say that “demographics as destiny” is over, because the GOP could continue to win in a majority non-white country.

I fear that Mr. Hood may have slipped into a bit of Hananianism: equating the national destiny — and by extension, white interests — with the success of the GOP. If Republicans win national elections by appealing to more and more BIPOCs, then almost by definition, they don’t represent us.

It is all very well for Republicans to call Hispanics and even blacks “natural conservatives,” and to tout policies a few of them may like, but the main thing I want to conserve is white people, and the hope for a North American enclave where we are the uncontested majority forever. And yes, we will take our fatsos with their clogged hearts, and help make them the best white men and women they can possibly be.