Prior to the era of post-1965 mass immigration, America was not a “diverse” country by modern standards. White and black Americans averaged 87 percent and 12 percent of the population, respectively, from the founding of Jamestown until the 1970s—more than 300 years of uninterrupted demographic stability. There was some internal diversity in the white American population, though this diversity was largely dealt with by rapid integration that often took less than a generation—two generations at most.
By the 1970s, when the foreign-born population was under 5 percent, America was a very cohesive nation. The “natural diversity” of the United States was found not in its inherent demography but in its geography and history. States in the South, such as Georgia, looked nothing like New Hampshire in New England. Louisiana is quite a different society from the one found in a Midwestern state like Michigan, and Michigan’s cultural habits differ greatly from those that existed in pre-replacement California.
American diversity was internal, unique, and interconnected enough to serve as an underpinning of the national character and not a detriment to it.
This is no longer the case.
Decades of unchecked mass immigration and the subsequent flight of native-born Americans from increasingly diverse and dysfunctional states has resulted in the disappearance of these unique communities under a tidal wave of third-world immigration. The Americans who flee these towns and cities undergoing replacement then move to other regions of the country and are themselves replacing the social, cultural, and political traditions of the Americans who are already there. This dual force of replacement migration from abroad and internal relocation is not only altering the demographic fabric of the nation but also accelerating political and cultural shifts that are destroying the state and local identities that America was founded to preserve in 1776.
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