Demographers Bassackward
This is laughable:
Census: Immigration helps big metros - 04/05/2007 - MiamiHerald.com
For a counter-example, here is my own experience: I truly loved my hometown while growing up and as a young adult in S. Florida as it morphed from a small city into part of a vital coastal megalopolis. But in recent years, thanks to bad immigration policy and lax enforcement of law, the character and culture of the growth factors took a turn for the worse. My family and I came to view the large foreign-born population infusion as not a healthy or neighborly benefit at all; rather, we learned it presented contrary belief system wedges that frequently made us uncomfortable in our own home. When culture, language and heritage are first challenged by others in a subtle manner and eventually overtly denigrated by ungrateful "wretched refuse," something has to give.
And in our case, it was us who gave in and fled. The rapid demographic shift fomented such a cultural arrogance on the part of the newcomers that living there became intolerable. Our reaction to mass immigration is not unique, it is prevalent and growing.
It only takes quick a look through my old MS Outlook contacts and retired Rolodex cards to see the obvious: I held out hope for my former home a lot longer than most of my high school classmates, college friends and former business associates. The exodus of my social and business cohort from South Florida was caused by the "otherness" of alien immigrants and our correct perception of their disrespect for our way of life, and that of our ancestors. Now our replacement population shows every intention of remaining allegiant-in-diaspora to their former homelands through the generations.
I'd like to tell the demographers where they can stick their asinine assumptions.
The article continues:
It is traditional Conservative impulses that lead people to flee cities inflicted with the results of the mass-immigrationist mentality, regardless of the evacuees' political persuasion. The unwelcomed replacement of Americans in metropolis should serve as a forewarning that all is not well with the status quo.
Screw political correctness. This invasion must end.
Technorati tags: white flight
Census: Immigration helps big metros - 04/05/2007 - MiamiHerald.com
"Immigrants are filling the void as domestic migrants are seeking opportunities in other places," said Mark Mather, a demographer at the Population Reference Bureau, a private research organization.Might it ever occur to demographers that a big reason for the "void" is the characteristic "otherness" of the very influx of immigrants they suggest that cities need? Here, and in most current dialog regarding immigrants and cities in America, demographic cause and effect are presented as ass-backwards as possible by "experts."
For a counter-example, here is my own experience: I truly loved my hometown while growing up and as a young adult in S. Florida as it morphed from a small city into part of a vital coastal megalopolis. But in recent years, thanks to bad immigration policy and lax enforcement of law, the character and culture of the growth factors took a turn for the worse. My family and I came to view the large foreign-born population infusion as not a healthy or neighborly benefit at all; rather, we learned it presented contrary belief system wedges that frequently made us uncomfortable in our own home. When culture, language and heritage are first challenged by others in a subtle manner and eventually overtly denigrated by ungrateful "wretched refuse," something has to give.
And in our case, it was us who gave in and fled. The rapid demographic shift fomented such a cultural arrogance on the part of the newcomers that living there became intolerable. Our reaction to mass immigration is not unique, it is prevalent and growing.
It only takes quick a look through my old MS Outlook contacts and retired Rolodex cards to see the obvious: I held out hope for my former home a lot longer than most of my high school classmates, college friends and former business associates. The exodus of my social and business cohort from South Florida was caused by the "otherness" of alien immigrants and our correct perception of their disrespect for our way of life, and that of our ancestors. Now our replacement population shows every intention of remaining allegiant-in-diaspora to their former homelands through the generations.
I'd like to tell the demographers where they can stick their asinine assumptions.
The article continues:
Advocates for stricter immigration laws question whether a stable, or even a shrinking population, is bad.If only our leaders understood that this last point is far more important to cities' health than importing cheap labor that spurs the rancor that accompanies diversity and multiculturalism. I suppose the onerous aspects of mass immigration are felt more keenly by those of us who were raised to believe, correctly, that a nation exists to promote and strengthen its culture; that is has a duty to honor ancestral legacy; and that it carries a prescription for a pathway to assure that there remains a birthright legacy for future generations to cherish.
"Don't we have concerns about congestion and sprawl and pollution?" asked Steven A. Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for stricter immigration policies.
"Maybe those metro areas should think about what it would take to make Americans want to live there," Camarota said.
It is traditional Conservative impulses that lead people to flee cities inflicted with the results of the mass-immigrationist mentality, regardless of the evacuees' political persuasion. The unwelcomed replacement of Americans in metropolis should serve as a forewarning that all is not well with the status quo.
Screw political correctness. This invasion must end.
Technorati tags: white flight
Labels: American Kernel, Conservatism, Culture, Diversity, Illegal Aliens, Immigration, Multiculturalism
