The Decline of the Majority: Today's horse manure.

Current blogs are full of comments, to the right and left, about the claim that the % of "anglos" or "whites" is getting below majority in a number of places in the uS.

This is racist manure. If we were to define anglo as it might have been in 1800, I 'spect the number of Brit:German descended Americans has been FAR below a majority for over a 100 years.

To the extent that skin color is a real issue, how in hell does such a stat deal with Black immigrants form the Caribbean or England itself?? On the other hand, what unimaginable quality distinguished a second generation Italian from a second generation Spaniard?

All of this has happened before. At the end of the 1800s there was huge concern about the cultural effect of Irish, Italian, and Jewish immigrants. Guess what .. dem Wops, Kikes, and feckin' oirish they is all now part of the "majority." The same thing is happening and will happen inevitably to the light skinned Hispanics.

That leaves the issue of color vs class vs race. Can the US adsorb culturally "anglo" folks if their skin is duskier than that of an Italian tenor? Maybe Barack knows the answer.

Then there is the BIG issue ... if Barak were Prexy, would he invite Barry Bonds into the White House for an honor? Politico thinks BO's waffling on this central issue is a big deal.

Mutatis mutandi