Immigrants have not been detrimental to America; but Obama supporters have

Submitted by Michael S (United States), Oct 10, 2015 at 23:46

Hello, Daniel. You noted,

• the United States was 84 percent white, 11 percent black, 4 percent Hispanic, and 1 percent Asian in 1965;
• today, it is 62 percent white, 12 percent black, 18 percent Hispanic and 6 percent Asian, and 2 percent other.
• ...in 2065, the population will be 46 percent white, 13 percent black, 24 percent Hispanics, 14 percent Asian, and 3 percent other.

The way that's presented, it looks like auto-genocide of White America. Let me clarify it a bit:

"White America" has changed tremendously since the day my Yankee ancestors came her in the 1600s. Much of this change came from immigration of Catholic Irish, Germans, Italians, etc;. and of Jews; but most of it came from the desendants of the Yankee settlers themselves, who abandoned Christianity in favor of Deist and Atheist ideas.

HIspanics are predominantly white and Christian; and their value system is probably closer to that of our founding fathers than are the values of modern Anglos. Asians, on average, outperform White Americans academically, for various reasons; and the Hispanics have a reputation for being harder workers.

When only two categories are used, namely, "Blacks" and "all others", the relaxed immigration laws have not been detrimental to the "American Ethos". Obama and his ilk certainly ARE detrimental; but he was supported mainly by Blacks, Jews and Yankees. They supported him in voting blocs of 80-95%, whereas the "immigrant" vote was much more evenly divided.

Importing Muslims into the country is another matter altogether.

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