Insty has the opportunity to interview John Ondrasik of Five For Fighting and their conversation touches on multi-culturalism with John suggesting that he misses the shared American culture that we enjoyed forty years ago.
Here’s the thing, that shared culture? It didn’t commit suicide it was murdered…
Bill Clinton was asked on NBC’s “Meet the Press” whether the conspiracy is still there. He replied: “You bet. Sure it is. It’s not as strong as it was because America has changed demographically. But it’s as virulent as it was.”
As the San Jose Mercury news noted recently…
But America is a very different place demographically than it was at the start of the Clinton administration, when three-quarters of Americans were white. Some say some of the tension in the nation’s civic dialogue has something to do with fear about how immigration and time are remaking the nation’s population.
Today, under two-thirds of Americans are white, while California went from being nearly 60 percent white in 1990 to just over 40 percent white today. Even in Orange County, ground zero for California conservatism, whites are no longer a majority of the population, according to U.S. Census estimates.
“Those whites that you see at the health care meetings, that was really Ronald Reagan’s America,” said John Kenneth White, a presidential scholar at the Catholic University of America and author of the newly published “Barack Obama’s America: How New Conceptions of Race, Family and Religion Ended the Reagan Era.”
“Reagan’s California exists today only on the commemorative license plate. That California that elected him governor twice and president twice is no more,” White said. He believes some of the anger behind the health care debate is from “a sense that power has shifted in the country, and the country they thought they knew doesn’t exist anymore.”
As Charles Murray has noted the majority of White Americans have grown more conservative over time.
And of course there still really is a distinct White America, at least to judge by elections there is…
Largely overlooked in the understandably good feelings generated by the election
of our first black president was the simple fact that white America did not vote for him.Most white Americans voted for John McCain. In fact, Barack Obama lost the white vote in 2008 by a landslide. While Obama won the overall vote by 53 percent to 46 percent, he lost among white voters by 55 percent to 43 percent. *snip*
Whenever I give speeches and mention that no Democratic president since Lyndon Johnson has won the white vote, I always see some head shaking in the audience, as if that could not possibly be true.
But it is. Three Democrats have become president since Lyndon Johnson — Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Obama — but none of them has won a majority of white votes.
How did they become president? By picking up enough white votes along with enough minority votes to build a winning coalition. In Obama’s case, he got 43 percent of the white vote, 95 percent of the black vote, 67 percent of the Latino vote and 62 percent of the Asian vote.
Not even a majority of White women have voted for the anti-White party any time recently…
By this test, it appears that there are a lot of angry white women and that they have been angry for decades. In 2008 white women preferred John McCain to Barack Obama by 53-47 (compare white men, 57-41). They backed George W. Bush in 2004 by 55-44 percent and in 2000 by a narrow 49-48 percent. A majority of white women in 1996 split their votes among Dole (43) and Perot (8), giving Clinton only a minority of their vote at 48 percent. In 1992 white women were even more anti-Clinton, giving Bush (41 percent) and Perot (18 percent) in combination a majority. White women gave the first Bush 56 percent of their vote in 1988, and they gave Reagan 62 percent in 1984 and 52 percent in 1980. They preferred Ford to Carter, 52-36. I could go on, but you get the picture. Clearly, to judge from their unwillingness to support Democratic presidential candidates since the 1960s, most white women, like most white men, are evil, hate-filled racist monsters.
To make the obvious point you can’t have multi-culturalism and a shared culture, they are antithetical to each other, like giving your pet poisoned treats. I’m always amused when folks talk about a loss of shared culture and champion endless amounts of immigration, can’t have both, you just can’t.
So Mr. Ondrasik how about a song calling for a White America?
He is like Hugh Hewitt who when reacting to the claim by Billyjeff Bentpecker that opposition to Nobama was racist ignored Bentpecker’s observation that Nobama had it better because the country was changing demographically. Hewitt went on a rant about protecting Medicare for seniors instead of the obvious that lazy immigrants on welfare are voting for the Demoncrats. No wonder Hewitt supports amnesty.