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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 07:01 AM
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Is White America Going Infertile? The Tea Party Frets.
from the Village Voice:




Is White America Going Infertile? The Tea Party Frets.
By Steven Thrasher, Wed., Mar. 30 2011 @ 10:35AM


Right Wing Watch alerts us that the Tea Party Nation sent out an e-mail blast this morning with a message from Rick Swier, who warned that the "The White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) population in America is headed for extinction and with it our economy, well-being and survival as a uniquely America culture."

Warning that the "country is dying not because it is aging, it is dying because of infertility as public policy," Swiers writers that some of the reasons white people are doomed are because:

-- "What is keeping America's fertility rate up are immigrants -- both legal and illegal"

-- Continuous attacks on "the family, bent on redefining marriage" which have led to "anti-family government programs" ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/03/is_white_americ.php



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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 07:02 AM
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1. Great. Breeding Tea Baggers. This is how Idiocracy was born.
:scared:
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 07:24 AM
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2. People aren't necessarily infertile on a grand scale....
But people, as they get more and more educated, procreate less and less. And with Christianity pumping out more atheists every second, less and less people are getting knocked up. I wouldn't bring a kid into this world at this point. I will probably at some point adopt a kid out of Foster Care and give a kid a home who is already here and needs someone. But I will not procreate. Partly because they want me to. LOL
Duckie
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 07:29 AM
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4. Many years ago I heard that a real indicator of the health of a society
is the birth rate. When it falls below replacement rate, people in the fertile years are unwilling to bring children into an effed up situation.
IIRC the birth rate in Russia (USSR) fell substantially in the '60s and '70s.
Heard on NPR that white birth rate in the US was @1% which I believe is < replacement rate.
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 07:59 AM
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10. Russia now has a national holiday to encourage people to reproduce.
It is always on a Wednesday. :rofl:
I'm actually not sure if this is true. I heard it on Craig Ferguson. But I thought it was HIGH-larious. =)
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 11:22 AM
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24. that is funny. Wonder what name they gave such a holiday?
I am sure the peasants probably have their own name for it.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 01:31 PM
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43. Thanksfucking? Screwmas? Jizzter? Hanookie?
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 02:07 PM
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47. I believe that would be Hump Day.
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MedicalAdmin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 02:24 PM
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50. Solidarnosc?
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Joe Bacon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 07:39 AM
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6. Same here, Duckie
Lots of family pressure to have kids. Sadly, my family is all teabaggers. I have no desire to bring a kid into the world while these bible beating lunatics are running around loose.
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 10:13 AM
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19. I sure would have second thoughts about having too many kids
considering the cost of raising them and sending them to college.

And they need to be told that it isn't the fault of Hispanics that they procreate so much. The blame lays solely on the policy of the Roman Catholic church. The long term policy of procreating as much as possible. And their not as long policy of being against abortions. Conspiracy hat time now -> RCC knew that whites were not going to procreate as much and want Hispanics to overrun whites in America. It has been their plan for at least 25 years.:eyes:
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 01:05 PM
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35. I don't know about you, but white people not being the populace majority anymore does not bother me.
As long as the same thing doesn't happen to us when we become the minority as it did in South Africa.
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 07:25 AM
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3. why they must be dumb fuckers
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 07:36 AM
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5. So the solution to a fucked up economy is more white people?
Didn't white Republicans fuck it up in the first place?

I won't wait for an answer… We all know what it is.

Someone's not doing the math correctly.
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gkhouston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 07:39 AM
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7. And childbirth is the only reason women are having fewer children.
:crazy:
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Skip Intro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 08:21 AM
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13. ?! "more white people" ?! Are you just slamming white people? How is that not racist?
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 12:48 PM
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29. That's the Teabaggerati's assertion, as I read it
And of course, it's racist.

But what else would one expect from them?
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pipi_k Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 07:45 AM
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8. And what they're not saying...
but I catch an undercurrent of in this statement:

Continuous attacks on "the family, bent on redefining marriage



It's also the fault of the Gays.

:eyes:


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FSogol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 07:49 AM
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9. Wouldn't encouraging gay immigrants solve all their problems?
:eyes: :crazy:
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vicarofrevelwood Donating Member (190 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 08:03 AM
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11. This sounds Like a
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Zephie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 08:18 AM
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12. Do I still count as "White America" if I practice any other religion besides Christianity?
Edited on Thu Mar-31-11 08:19 AM by Zephie
I mean, obviously I don't qualify as a WASP since I don't have the P part, but isn't the WAS the most important in their mind?
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 08:33 AM
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14. Well, I'm a WASP and my 3 kids are WASPS but I'm real happy they
didn't feel like they had to breed with another WASP. As a result I have marvelous grandkids that are Jewish and Italian American.

Sometimes I just hate being a WASP. After reading this crap, this is another one of those times...
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Skip Intro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 09:00 AM
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16. You shouldn't hate being what you are. No one should. nt
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 01:18 PM
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37. I just don't like the stupidity...
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 12:19 PM
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28. My mother, born in Nebraska in 1914, never saw an Asian until she was 21
When she died at the age of 88, she had four grandchildren, two half Japanese and two half Korean.
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 01:20 PM
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38. I think one of the reasons that I feel so strongly about anti-semitism is
because I have granddaughters who would be victims of another Holocaust. It is a sobering thought...
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 02:09 PM
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48. I think one of the reasons I feel so strongly about anti-semitism is because . . .
. . . according to family oral history, my great grandfather was a Jew. He was born about 1850. We've been at it for a long time in my family, even doing it long before it was fashionable.
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 02:40 PM
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51. well, I wasn't anti-semitic before my granddaughters were born, but I didn't
feel it as personally touching my life. It has given me a perspective I could never have had otherwise.
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white_wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 08:58 AM
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15. This sounds like something
Stormfront would love. I swear why don't the teabaggers just come out and admit their Nazis?
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deacon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 09:00 AM
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17. This will create a sea of fornicating t-baggers ! n/t
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 12:13 PM
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27. Not a good picture at all
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Erose999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 09:08 AM
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18. The T-baggers are too old and erectile dysfunctional to breed.
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Yavin4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 10:31 AM
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20. Maybe If White Corporate America Would Keep Jobs Here Instead of Sending Them Overseas, Paid
middle class wages, offererd better child supportive policies for parents, better healthcare, etc. IOW, if White Corporate America would make like more economically stable, then White people would have more White children.

You cannot stagnate wages for over a decade. You cannot lay people off because someone overseas can do the same job for pennies. You cannot disenfranchise the middle class, and then expect people to have 10 kids. Ain't gonna happen.
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surrealAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 12:57 PM
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31. That's it.
Much of the low birth rate in this country can be explained by simple economics. People are choosing not to have more children than they can afford.

You'd think the right would be applauding this level of personal responsibility.
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Yavin4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-01-11 12:06 PM
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53. "You'd think the right would be applauding this level of personal responsibility."
Esp. since they love to denigrate people who have kids but cannot afford them.
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 10:34 AM
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21. tea bagger inbreeding will do that
:evilgrin:
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Pisces Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 10:44 AM
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22. There is always the Duggars to help those numbers out.
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Fire1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 10:53 AM
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23. He is correct and for many reasons. White women are
waiting longer to have children and are having very few.
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shanti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 01:03 PM
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34. don't forget that
they are ALSO having children by men who are not white. :evilgrin:
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 01:25 PM
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40. Yep and it works the other way too - proud "Race traitor" here
And yes, I have been called that when out with my wife, and right to my face
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shanti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 02:01 PM
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44. really, in california?
i'm in cali too, and have a biracial (b/w) adult son. the only racism i ever experienced with him was dirty looks by old geezers, and that was when he was a baby, over 20 years ago. my community is very multiracial, the most multiracial area in cali, supposedly (sacramento).
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 02:03 PM
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45. This was mostly in the Central Valley, esp Fresno
And in Oregon

Although it happened once in SF, but my guess is the asshole wasn't local - he looked like, and acted very much like a skinhead
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shanti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 02:11 PM
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49. you just reminded me of another incident i forgot about
that happened when DS was in hs. he was heckled while playing bb at one of the sierra foothills high schools (teabagger rebel flag wingers, i worked with some), called the n word, monkey and all that. yes, there are still parts of cali that are quite racist, central valley, yes. oregon....not california, but there a lot of ex-californians there.

sf/bay area always felt "safe" to me.

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Fire1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 04:11 PM
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52. Indeed., interracial marriages are on the rise. n/t
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booley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 11:24 AM
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25. Sure glad teabaggers aren't bigots
Otherwise this might have been misconstrued that something loathsome and vile.

:sarcasm:
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 11:40 AM
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26. Oh, no. They're not racists, are they?
They only believe the success of America depends on white people, that's all.
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RedCloud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 12:54 PM
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30. Sort of speeches you hear before they get blood thirsty.
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dembotoz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 01:00 PM
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32. i want to help on this any way i can, but i need some cooperation
any volunteers?????
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shanti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 01:02 PM
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33. heh
if it is, i helped :evilgrin:
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JanMichael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 01:16 PM
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36. Good. I am glad he wrote that silly assed email. Kick that closet door DOWN
you racist fuckwits.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 01:24 PM
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39. Maybe they should do like Putin and have 'love tents' for white couples
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Evoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 01:27 PM
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41. As a latino male with a white fiancee, I just wanna say 1 thing.
Edited on Thu Mar-31-11 01:28 PM by Evoman
Ha! Suck it teabaggers!
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L0oniX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 01:28 PM
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42. Only a fool would have children ...those born now have no future as we know it.
They will be forced to live without much of what we have today. Who wants that for their kids?
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Xicano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 02:05 PM
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46. Tea Baggers are too stupid to see THEIR economics are the cause of their racist worries.
When you have a class of people who have been the majority beneficiaries of a system, placing them in a higher standard of living than other classes, then, when that system begins to crumble it will affect those more who it benefited more from that system but are not high enough on the totem pole to avoid being affected.

On the other hand, the class of people who have not benefited as much and have had to deal with lower standards of living are already use to dealing with what the higher class is not use to. In some aspects they are affected much less in bad economic times than the higher class. Therefore its not much of a surprise to see the higher class population rate decrease while the lower class continuing on as it has been.

So this is not in as much a race issue as it is an economic issue. It only appears to be a race issue due to the fact that non whites have traditionally comprised the majority of the lower classes. Therefore I'd be willing to bet that the part of the lower class which are white are no different, and I bet their population isn't decreasing. Their population curve probably is no different now than it was before too.

So in my opinion this is not a race issue, this is an economic distribution issue coming to the surface in bad economic times.




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