This is over a month old, but I just saw it. Apologies if it was posted earlier. I find this fascinating... and very much an underpinning reason for the Tea Party excesses and the Repub Party going crazy the last decade or so. Texas will be a minority-majority state soon and I suspect that's one big reason behind the Delay-driven redistricting... so they could wring everything they could out of the state before the changes become evident. Regardless of whether I'm right about that or not, this trend will have profound effects on our society. How we manage this and deal with the stresses will define us as a country in a major way over the coming decades. As they say, demographics is destiny.
Race will cease to be an issue politically, because whites in both parties will still have the plurality, but be terror-fied. Or it will be like the South, where most states have a disproportionate number of Dem-voting blacks, which drives all the whites to vote Republican. And oodles and oodles of home-schooling.
i know some people who advocate white people having a lot of children, and who think it's terrible that many whites are choosing to delay or decide against having children. why are people so obsessed with this? so what if minorities have more children? is it really that important to people to carry on their skin color across the generations?
Nope. Home-schooling will probably get cheaper and easier, with larger networks and support groups. And the aversion to diverse schools and neighborhoods has never been that hard to tap into. Ever wonder why fully accredited, low cost, historically black colleges have never fully integrated? Barring that, maybe some Eugenics, Hamitic Curse, or just strip away all the slavery and civil rights stuff.
It's a new G.O.Tea strategery: it's like when the opposing team has the ball in the fourth quarter and you start an early count-down of the shot clock, trying to get them to take a terrible off-balance jumper.
It has nothing to do with strategery. States will vote for their own interests, and economics is always the key.
the funny thing to me is I really think upper middle class white women who are stay at home moms actually tend to have more babies
But there are very few of those these days. It's hard to be upper middle class (or even middle class period) these days with kids to support and only one working parent.
