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Re: Demographic Blueshift
By: rp Date: April 18, 2021, 2:13 am
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They will just replace them with "non-white" Westerners.
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Re: Demographic Blueshift
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 22, 2021, 10:17 pm
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Can it happen?
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UtiFy7UI74
Jones is on the case:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-blew-democratic-congressman-accused-164723018.html
[quote]Republican lawmakers blew up on Thursday after Democratic
Rep. Mondaire Jones accused the GOP of spreading "racist trash"
during a heated debate over a bill to grant statehood to
Washington, DC.
"I've had enough of my colleagues' racist insinuations that
somehow the people of Washington, DC, are incapable or even
unworthy of our democracy," Jones said on the House floor.
He then called out Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas for saying DC
wouldn't be a "well-rounded working-class state."
"I had no idea there were so many syllables in the word
'white,'" Jones said.
He also pointed out Republican Rep. Jody Hice's claim that
Washington, DC, does not deserve statehood because it doesn't
have a landfill.
"My goodness, with all the racist trash my colleagues have
brought to this debate, I can see why they're worried about
having a place to put it," Jones continued, as Republicans could
be heard objecting to his comments. "The truth is there is no
good-faith argument for disenfranchising over 700,000 people,
Mr. Speaker, most of whom are people of color."
...
the history of opposition to federal representation for
Washington, DC, is rooted in anti-Black racism. Confederate
lawmakers explicitly rejected DC's various attempts to
self-govern and elect its own representation because of its
large Black population.
"In the face of this influx of negro population from the
surrounding States, [Congress] … found it necessary to
disenfranchise every man in the District of Columbia … in order
thereby to get rid of this load of negro suffrage that was
flooded in upon them," Sen. John Tyler Morgan of Alabama, who
owned slaves, said in 1890.
Morgan explained that Congress got rid of local leadership in
the city "to burn down the barn to get rid of the rats … the
rats being the negro population and the barn being the
government of the District of Columbia."
It wasn't until the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 70s
that the city was given the right to elect its own mayor and
non-voting House member.[/quote]
HTML https://action.aclu.org/files/aclu/DC_1160x650.jpg
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Re: Demographic Blueshift
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 23, 2021, 10:11 pm
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HTML https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9497675/Rashida-Tliab-tells-Muslims-welcome-House-passes-bill-prevent-travel-bans.html
[quote]Rep. Rashida Tlaib said Wednesday that Congress had sent
a message to Muslims that 'you are welcome here' after the House
voted for legislation that would prevent actions like President
Trump's Muslim ban.
The House on Wednesday passed the 'No Ban Act,' which would
limit the president's ability to to suspend or restrict the
entry into the U.S. of a 'class of aliens.'
'I want to really be very loud and very clear and sending a
message to every Muslim and African person here and around the
world that you are welcome here. And the United States of
America,' said Tlaib, who famously called to 'impeach the
mother******' in reference to Trump at the start of her term in
2019.
She unloaded on Trump's administrative actions Wednesday, as the
House once again passed legislation it also passed under Trump –
when the president certainly would have vetoed it if it ever
reached his desk.
'The Congress United States of House of Representatives took
action to ensure racist and dangerous bans like The Muslim and
African ban will be no more,' she said. 'Today the passage of
the no ban app or ban as is showing our immigrant neighbors and
refugees everywhere. The House Democrats will not tolerate
racist immigration policies,' she said.
The bill passed on a 218-208 vote.
Republicans bashed the move.[/quote]
WE WILL REPLACE YOU!
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Re: Demographic Blueshift
By: guest5 Date: April 24, 2021, 12:49 pm
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Dem lawmaker: Here's why opposition to DC statehood is racist
[quote]Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY) explains why he condemned GOP
objections to statehood for the District of Columbia as racist.
#CNN​ #News[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzKuMy2hNcg
This might be a bit of a stretch, but something tells me Tom
Cotton's ancestors may have had something to do with cotton?
Or cottages apparently (after looking it up) :D
[quote]The name Cotton is of Anglo-Saxon origin and came from
when a family lived in one of a number of similarly named
settlements throughout England. Coton is found in
Cambridgeshire, while Cotton was in Cheshire. ... All of these
names stem from the Old English phrase æt cotum, which means at
the cottages.[/quote]
HTML https://www.houseofnames.com/cotton-family-crest
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Re: Demographic Blueshift
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 26, 2021, 11:34 pm
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Post-census Congressional seat changes:
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HTML https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/072/628/038/small/d3fb3f7e01575348.png
The stakes for turning Texas Blue, or failing to, are higher
than ever!
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Re: Demographic Blueshift
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 8, 2021, 11:56 pm
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HTML https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/case-five-new-states/
[quote]The case for five new states
Granting statehood to the US’s territories would transform the
lives of 4+ million citizens, and probably US politics as well
One of the most transformative things Democrats could do with
their narrow majority in Congress would be to grant statehood to
all the remaining inhabited US territories. That would make five
new states: Washington DC, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands,
American Samoa, and the Mariana Islands (a reunion of the
Northern Mariana Islands and Guam, which is the southern Mariana
Island).
There are no constitutional barriers to admitting all five of
these states. The US Constitution gives Congress the power to
admit new states as long as it assures they are republics and
that the majority of people of the territory want to be
admitted. The Senate will have to eliminate or reduce the power
of the filibuster to do so without Republican support, but the
filibuster is a Senate rule that the majority has the power to
change.
All five of these territories have larger populations than
Nevada did when it was admitted with around 40,000 people in
1864. Washington, DC is larger than two existing states and
Puerto Rico is larger than 21 states. The populations of all
five are:
American Samoa: 55,000
The U.S. Virgin Islands: 105,000
Gaum and the Northern Mariana Islands: 230,000
Washington, DC: 705,000
Puerto Rico: 3,193,000
Territorial status was not meant to be permanent for any
significant population. It was used for lightly settled areas in
the expectation that statehood would be granted once population
density increased. Not allowing this change to occur is an
exercise in oppression. The people of these territories are
subject to US law, yet are denied equal say (in most cases any
say at all) in making US law. They are literally second-class
citizens. The federal government for the most part treats them
as such – the Trump administration’s reaction to the damage
Hurricane Maria inflicted on Puerto Rico is only one in a long
line of blatant examples.
Ending the Whiteness of Congress
These territories have so far been prevented from becoming
states as part of a larger, long-standing project to keep the
Senate and Electoral College White. A long history of White
identity politics, underhanded political maneuvers, and outright
violence intentionally created the situation in which
non-Hispanic, White Americans – who make up 61.5% of the US
population – are the majority in every state but Hawaii (which
has an Asian American plurality of 37.3%). Americans of Native,
Black, or Latin heritage together make up 31.1% of the US
population, but they do not make up a majority in any state –
neither alone nor in combination.
That didn’t just happen.
Several Native American groups with sizable populations applied
for statehood at various times and were turned down by Congress
simply because they were Native Americans. Arizona and New
Mexico, which were majority Mexican American when they applied
for statehood, weren’t accepted until enough eastern settlers
had arrived to give them White majorities – more than half a
century later.
At the end of the Civil War, two states (South Carolina and
Mississippi) were majority Black, but White gangs violently took
over the state governments and refused to let them vote. Four
other states were more than 40% Black at the time, but similar
tactics were used to completely shut this population out of
power. Nearly 100 years later these states were forced to let
Black people vote, but by then enough had fled north to create
comfortable White majorities in all of these states.
These decisions were made long ago, but they continue to have
the intended effect of giving Whites outside influence over
Congress and the electoral college. Had the White majority been
fair and evenhanded, the US would have several Black, Native,
Latin-heritage majority states today.
Let’s see how these potential states would change the equation.
Despite being different in many respects, one trait they share
is that none has a White majority. Look at the largest ethnic
group in each of them:
American Samoa: 89% Samoan
The U.S. Virgin Islands: 76% Afro-Caribbean
The Northern Mariana Islands: 35% Filipino (24% Chamorro)
Gaum: 37% Chamorro (26% Filipino)
Washington, DC: 49% Black (43.6% White)
Puerto Rico: 98% Latin heritage
Given American history, it’s reasonable to believe that their
ethnic makeup is a primary reason why they are not states
already. And by refusing to grant them statehood, the White
majority is effectively choosing to guard and maintain its
outsized influence in the federal government. It’s not something
that happened a lot time ago. It’s something being actively
preserved every day.
Admitting these states would create one near-majority Black
state (Washington, DC), one majority Afro-Caribbean state (the
U.S. Virgin Islands) and one majority Latin-heritage state
(Puerto Rico). Samoans and Chamorros are indigenous peoples in
territories that have been colonized by the United States. The
people in these new states can’t hope to ‘represent’ people with
similar ethnic backgrounds on the mainland, but perhaps the
people they would send to Washington would have greater
understanding of marginalized groups than most members of
Congress do now. All would certainly bring new perspectives into
the mix and roil the status quo.
These new states would have a minor impact on the House of
Representatives, but they’d have a major impact on the Electoral
College and the Senate. The number of Senators would increase
from 100 to 110, and they would not necessarily be closely
connected to either party. Maybe they would help de-polarize
American and help end the politicization of the
big-state/small-state divide.
Equal rights for equal citizens
Three of these territories are very small; would statehood give
them too much influence over US politics? Whites would be still
be in the majority in 89% of the states (49 of 55), and
therefore would still have disproportionate power in the Senate,
the House, and the Electoral College – just not as
disproportionate as it is now. All of these territories (except
the Northern part of the Mariana Islands) have been subject to
US law for over 100 years and have had little or no influence
over the shaping of US law in all that time. It would be rather
disingenuous of mainlanders to say that 2% of power in the
Senate is ‘too much’ for people from these territories to wield,
while 100% of power is somehow an appropriate amount for them.
Should we combine these territories into larger units or
incorporate them into existing states? For Guam and the Northern
Mariana Islands, that makes sense. They share history,
ethnicity, and language, and are separate now because of US
federal government decisions. But otherwise, these five
potential states share little or nothing.
Forcing them to combine is not how America works. There are both
large and small states because the union recognizes that people
have distinct regional interests, and the system was designed to
help small states hold their own against large ones. Wyoming
wasn’t forced to combine with Vermont, the next smallest state,
although they are geographically closer together and more
culturally similar than American Samoa and the Mariana Islands
are. Nor were the people of Wyoming forcibly incorporated into
Colorado, where they would constitute only 10% of the population
and would have little impact on the state’s decisions. If the
United States won’t do this to the people of Wyoming, it should
not do it to the people of the US Virgin Islands or American
Samoa.
There is no need to wait for a wider political consensus. The
constitution doesn’t require any more consensus than a majority
vote of both houses. Republicans don’t wait for consensus to
disenfranchise voters, Gerrymander districts, or give tax cuts
to the wealthy. Why should Democrats wait to enfranchise US
citizens living on US territory? The cure for disenfranchisement
is enfranchisement, and right now there is an opportunity to do
that in a big way.
The Democrats have the power to admit all five of these
territories as states in time for the 2022 midterm elections. It
would bring equal citizenship to every citizen living on US
territory. It would transform American politics forever and for
the better.[/quote]
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Re: Demographic Blueshift
By: guest5 Date: May 12, 2021, 1:02 am
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Poll: Opposition to Newsom recall grows and Jenner fails to
break through
[quote]A growing number of Californians oppose the forthcoming
recall of Gavin Newsom, according to a survey released Tuesday
morning, a boost for the sitting governor who has suffered a
series of political blows over the past year.
Roughly 49 percent said they were against removing Newsom, a
tick higher than the 45 percent who responded similarly in
January. [/quote]
HTML https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/11/gavin-newsom-recall-opposition-grows-486973
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Re: Demographic Blueshift
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 15, 2021, 12:12 am
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We are not safe yet:
HTML https://vdare.com/letters/a-patriot-lawyer-has-a-small-white-pill-about-the-white-birth-rate
[quote]The biggest news out of it is that births are way down,
declining by 4% from 2019. The decline has been happening for
about a decade, but seems to have accelerated as a result of the
pandemic. I would expect that 2021 will show a further decline.
One thing I noted, however, was that white births as a
percentage of the total remain pretty much unchanged. It was
51.1% in 2019, and it is now just a click over 51.0% for 2020.
That is statistically insignificant. So, despite one million
legal immigrants per year—and an untold number of
illegals—whites are holding steady. This is because some of the
sharpest drops occurred amongst minority women as compared to
white women.[/quote]
It is no surprise that those least likely to practice social
distancing were those who conceived the most.....
[quote]If an immigration moratorium were imposed, or even if
immigration were reduced, I would suspect that the white share
of births—and the overall population—would start to
increase.[/quote]
This is why we need state control over reproduction.
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Re: Demographic Blueshift
By: rp Date: May 15, 2021, 12:15 am
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This is what I have been saying as well, i.e. only a steady
decrease in population will suffice, as opposed to them merely
becoming the minority.
Also, a reminder that any "leftist" who identifies as "White"
but still nevertheless chooses to reproduce in this day and age
is directly contributing to this problem and is therefore an
enemy. See:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/cair-and-abby-martin/
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/israel/?message=2481
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Re: Demographic Blueshift
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 16, 2021, 9:59 pm
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We are rising by 2%/year, which is too slow:
[img]
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