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(Murray’s statistics are based on whites alone, to control for race.)
Whites, Asians, and Middle Easterners mix well.
Indeed, demographers predict that in 2050 non-Hispanic whites will be only a slim majority of US residents.
Though elections may not be free and fair, massive electoral manipulation is rare and the days when only males, whites, or the rich could vote are long gone.
Just as whites attribute extraordinary sexual powers to black men, the Christian West's instinct is to treat Jews as the masters of extraordinary forces--including the power to kill deities and control world finance.
In fact, the Jews are, of course, not a race, but then neither are whites, blacks, mulattos, Indians, gypsies, Arabs, or any other subgroup of human beings.
But millions of the blue-collar, socially conservative whites who voted for Trump also rely on these and similar programs.
Forty years ago, after legal segregation of blacks and whites formally ended in America, the United States was confronted by similar problems.
Surveys reveal that 80% of African-Americans thought the issue had raised important questions about race in the United States; only 44% of whites agreed.
In South Africa, for example, whites were both the elite and the racial minority.
Political divisions have widened between the rich and poor, among ethnic groups (non-Hispanic whites versus African Americans and Hispanics), across religious affiliations, between native-born and immigrants, and along other social fault lines.
But rather than pursue the needed reconciliation of adversaries – the reds and the whites – the regime will probably take a side, in order to spin the story to its own benefit.
Students for Fair Admissions, the organization suing Harvard, has submitted to the court a document showing that a review from Harvard’s own Office of Institutional Research found that in 2013 Asian-Americans were less likely to be admitted than whites who performed comparably well on all measures except a subjective “personal” rating.
But what happens when AIs take over the parole process and African-Americans are still being jailed at a higher rate than whites?
It was the “culture” of apartheid South Africa that blacks should live apart from whites and have separate, and inferior, educational opportunities.
Or, to put it more accurately, it was the culture of the whites who held power in these places at that time.
These are all recurring themes in ongoing debates across the West, with its growing population of disaffected whites, displaced workers, and frustrated young people.
According to a study published in 2014, life expectancy for African Americans is some four years lower for women and more than five years lower for men, relative to whites.
America is becoming a more divided society – divided not only between whites and African Americans, but also between the 1% and the rest, and between the highly educated and the less educated, regardless of race.
Moreover, they have half the level of cancer-protective vitamin D as whites, and they are much more likely to live in polluted neighborhoods.
Cancer is the leading cause of death in middle-aged persons and children (after accidents), and we can’t explain why, for most forms of cancer, death rates are higher for blacks than they are for whites.
“It is within formerly high-slave areas,” they show, “that whites are the most likely to oppose the Democratic Party, oppose affirmative action, and express sentiments that could be construed as racially resentful.”
Both before and after the Civil War, poor Southern whites accepted their lowly status because they prized their superiority over even more desperate African-Americans.
Racial politics thus blocked the emergence of class politics, which would have brought poor whites and poor blacks together to demand more public services paid for by higher taxes on elite whites.
Working-class southern whites would have much to gain from abandoning the Republicans’ race-based politics in favor of class-based politics.
It is, after all, white corporate elites, not poor African-Americans, Hispanics, and other minorities, who deprive working-class whites of quality public schools, affordable health care, and environmental safety.
The declining predominance of non-Hispanic whites in the total population has probably widened America’s cultural divide during the past 20 years.
And with non-Hispanic whites expected to become a minority of the total population by around 2045, America’s ongoing civil war could worsen.
Research by the Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton shows that the demographic trends among lower-income whites without a college degree are worse than those for African-Americans, who historically anchored the lower extremes of inequality.
In 1999, mortality rates among whites with no college were around 30% lower than those of African-Americans; by 2015, they were 30% higher.
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