Demystifying Multiculturalism: Controlling Our Demographic Destiny

AFTER 2050, Americans of European descent, who were 89 per cent of the U.S. population in 1960, will be a minority of less than 50 per cent, according to the estimates of Leon Bouvier, former vice president of the Population Reference Bureau and a leading authority on immigration. But there is nothing natural or inevitable about this demographic revolution. It is essentially a result of U.S. Government policies after 1965 that had the effect of decreasing immigration from Europe and increasing immigration from the Third World.

The plausibility of multiculturalism depends entirely on these policies. Halt them or reduce their impact and the demographic change becomes much less dramatic.

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AFTER 2050, Americans of European descent, who were 89 per cent of the U.S. population in 1960, will be a minority of less than 50 per cent, according to the estimates of Leon Bouvier, former vice president of the Population Reference Bureau and a leading authority on immigration. But there is nothing natural or inevitable about this demographic revolution. It is essentially a result of U.S. Government policies after 1965 that had the effect of decreasing immigration from Europe and increasing immigration from the Third World.

The plausibility of multiculturalism depends entirely on these policies. Halt them or reduce their impact and the demographic change becomes much less dramatic.