America’s Future Is Texas
<i>Evan Smith, of the Texas Tribune, has closely followed thirteen legislative sessions. He noted that, even as Dan Patrick and his Republican allies slashed government services, they allocated eight hundred million dollars for border security. “White people are scared of change, believing that what they have is being taken away from them by people they consider unworthy,” he told me. “But all they’re doing is poking a bear with a stick. In 2004, the Anglo population in Texas became a minority. The last majority-Anglo high-school class in Texas graduated in 2014. There will never be another. The reality is, it’s all over for the Anglos.”<p>Texas leads the nation in Latino population growth.<p>For Wu, the sanctuary-cities bill was the natural culmination of the “bigoted, racist mentality” that has emerged in Texas, which he calls the epicenter of the Tea Party. “Trump is simply the most visible manifestation of that mentality,” he told me. “It’s been percolating up in the Republican Party for the past decade.”</i><p>I find the way this piece is written really emblematic of the sort of two-faced and bad faith style for which our urban elites are becoming infamous. We have a number of things going on in the article, but part of the core point is stated only partially, which is that due to mass immigration the demographics of Texas are rapidly changing to &quot;majority-minority&quot; in such a way as to almost guarantee Democratic victory in the near future.<p>And yet at the same time, the causes of this rapid demographic change are just barely hinted at, and mainly to not-so-subtly suggest anyone who opposes the demographic change or wants to enact policy measures to try to stop the trend is simply backwards, bigoted and naive to political realities.<p>Trump is president, the GOP is currently ascendent, the political divide in the country is about as bad as it&#x27;s ever been and getting worse, and the New Yorker is seemingly clueless to the way it&#x27;s perceived by much of the country when it puts out a barely read-between-the-lines article whose message is: we will replace your people via mass immigration and you dumb hicks aren&#x27;t going to stop it.<p>If this becomes a country where saying &quot;it’s all over for the Anglos&quot; is normalized or even celebrated among urban elites, I seriously worry about our future for any kind of political peace.