Using new census data, the Brookings Institution shows how the demographic map of the US is being redrawn. The main segment of the US population in sharp decline is Euro-Americans, as well as young people under 18 in general.
The US Euro-American population has been in a sharp downward spiral for a long time. For example, data from 2016 from the U.S. Census Bureau, which is responsible for the census, demonstrated this fact, which was subsequently analyzed by the think tank The Brookings Institution, including in a report published in August, which describes “annual changes from July 2016 to July 2021”.
Looking at age and ethnic grouping, it is clear that Americans outside the Euro-American population make up an increasingly large share of the population in all demographic groups. The groups increasing most in size are primarily Hispanics.
Moreover, analysis of age changes shows that young people under 18 and prime working age individuals (18-59) have declined exceptionally in size.
Summary of demographic statistics compiled by Brookings.
The US population as a whole grew by 392,665 individuals between July 2020 and July 2021, down from over 1 million in each of the previous three years and over 2 million in 2016-17. The 2020 census brings the country’s population to 331 million.
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Donald Trump warns of sharia law in London and attacks the Pakistani-born mayor Sadiq Khan as a “terrible mayor”.
Khan counters by condemning the president as “sexist”, “racist” and “islamophobic”.
The war of words between the two politicians escalated after Trump’s UN speech on Tuesday, where he painted a very dark picture of Europe’s mass immigration problems.
– Europe is in serious trouble and is being invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody has ever seen before, Trump said in his speech.
He directed particularly sharp criticism at London and its mayor:
– Where you have a terrible mayor, a terrible, terrible mayor, and it’s been so changed. Now they want to go to Sharia law, but you’re in a different country, you can’t do that.
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“Your countries are going to HELL! They’re being ruined.”
In an interview with BBC London, Khan, whose parents immigrated from Pakistan, countered by throwing various epithets at the president.
– Trump has shown he is racist, he is sexist, he is misogynistic and he is Islamophobic, Khan said.
The mayor simultaneously defended London’s status as a world city, despite it being listed as the 16th most dangerous city in Europe according to the Numbeo Crime Index.
– We are often number one in the world when it comes to culture, foreign investment and sport. I’m really proud we are the greatest city in the world, Khan claimed.
London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan: “I appear to be living rent-free inside Donald Trump’s head. He is racist, he is sexist, he is misogynistic, and he is Islamophobic” pic.twitter.com/MuPU79ifEg
He further claimed that a large number of Americans had actually chosen to move to London during Trump’s presidency.
Britons in minority
London has undergone extensive demographic change in recent decades. White Britons today constitute a minority in the capital, as well as in Birmingham and other major British cities after decades of extensive immigration primarily from Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Just over 15 percent of London’s population today identifies as Muslim.
Decades of mass immigration have brought enormous social and economic problems. Violent crimes, particularly knife attacks and gang-related violence, have increased sharply in the major cities where residents in many areas now live in insecurity and vulnerability.
Segregation has worsened dramatically with entire neighborhoods transformed into foreign ethnic enclaves as the native population has been successively forced to flee areas where British culture and language have been displaced by imported customs and norms.
Despite the extensive negative consequences for the white British population – from lost residential areas to increased insecurity and cultural displacement – both Labour and the Conservatives have for decades stubbornly continued to pursue a mass immigration policy that has fundamentally changed the country.
Today, the AfD is the largest party in large parts of eastern Germany - largely due to the policies pursued during Angela Merkel's tenure as German Chancellor.
In a new documentary, Germany’s former Chancellor Angela Merkel admits that her borderless migration policy from 2015 onwards caused many Germans to abandon the establishment parties and instead turn to the nationalist Alternative for Germany.
Despite her migration policy having far-reaching negative consequences for the German people and society, Merkel emphasizes that she regrets nothing.
“Wir schaffen das” – we can do it. Angela Merkel’s words from August 2015 became the symbol of Germany’s borderless mass immigration policy when the country received nearly one million asylum seekers during a single autumn. The decision, which was made without broad political support, fundamentally changed German society according to many observers.
Now, nine years later, the former Chancellor is forced to admit in a documentary on the public service channel ARD that her policy also had major political consequences – and that many Germans abandoned the old established parties and instead sought alternatives that better represented their interests.
— Of course my decision caused people to join AfD. And in that way AfD definitely became stronger, says Merkel in the documentary.
“Major task”
The EU- and immigration-critical Alternative for Germany (AfD) today runs almost neck-and-neck with Merkel’s own Christian Democratic CDU/CSU in opinion polls – a dramatic development that can be directly linked to the mass immigration wave of 2015 and the societal problems that followed.
Despite this, Merkel refuses to acknowledge any mistakes. In the documentary, she stubbornly defends both her policy and her controversial statement.
— It wasn’t meant to express anything other than that we face a major task, she says about the infamous words “Wir schaffen das” – a promise that many Germans today consider naive, deceptive and detached from reality.
Stifled debate during Merkel’s era
Under Merkel’s leadership, Germany pursued perhaps Europe’s most borderless immigration policy, while all criticism was systematically dismissed and opponents routinely labeled as “racists” and “Nazis” – a smear campaign strategy that remains common ten years later.
Germany also has some of the Western world’s harshest laws regarding opinion crimes. People who publicly criticize immigration policy in strong terms risk substantial fines and prison sentences – an arrangement that free speech activists say has created a culture of self-censorship and fear of expressing what one really thinks about the consequences of immigration.
Despite more than one in five Germans today voting for AfD – and the party being largest in large parts of eastern Germany – its opponents still try to criminalize it by claiming its policies violate the German constitution.
AfD leader Alice Weidel is very popular in many parts of Germany. Photo: X/@Alice_Wiedel
Rhetorical shift
In recent years, Germany and several other European countries have drastically changed their rhetoric around migration. Talk of open hearts and boundless solidarity has been replaced by demands for stricter border controls and tougher asylum rules.
In practice, however, the tougher rhetoric has not resulted in any comprehensive change. Mass immigration continues, albeit at a somewhat lower pace, while promised large-scale deportation programs repeatedly get bogged down in bureaucratic processes without ever being realized.
In Sweden, for example, the current government often speaks of a migration policy “paradigm shift” – despite mass immigration continuing at historically high levels and Sweden receiving almost 100,000 migrants last year.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán argues that it is the Hungarians' "duty" to protect both Hungary and Europe from the consequences of mass immigration.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán warns that mass migration is one of the most acute threats of our time – and that both Hungary and Europe must be protected before it’s too late.
In a post on X, Orbán describes migration as a “silent weapon” that can fundamentally change a country without a single shot being fired.
“It changes cities, neighbourhoods, entire nations, until one day you feel like a stranger in your own home. Our duty is clear: protect Hungary, protect Europe”, he writes.
At an appearance at the MCC Feszt festival in Esztergom, Hungary, where he recently spoke to hundreds of young people, Orbán elaborated on his reasoning. He noted that many young people don’t see migration as a direct threat, despite it being, according to him, “the most decisive and immediate” threat to Europe.
— Migration is the best example of how a country can be lost forever without any weapons being used, he continued.
“Believe your own eyes”
The Prime Minister urged young people to travel around Europe’s major cities and compare today’s reality with older history books. The purpose, he argues, is to discover for themselves how cities have changed beyond recognition.
— If you do not believe us. Then believe your own eyes. This is how you can lose your own country almost imperceptibly, without war, without conflict, in a way that no one asked you and you never agreed to,
Orbán also pointed to how quickly developments can occur.
— Suddenly you start to feel that the entire situation you find yourself in has become foreign. Like when you take the subway home through a suburb, for example. Ten years ago it didn’t look like this.
According to Orbán, migration is the greatest and most acute challenge facing Europe – a threat that, if not stopped, risks permanently changing the continent forever.
— It may not seem as brutal as war, but it’s a constant threat that will persist for decades. We will be under constant pressure – greater pressure than what we experience now.
Politicians and media promised that mass immigration would make Sandviken, Sweden into an economic success story. Ten years later, reality is much bleaker: half the city is now classified as an exclusion area and compared to notorious problem suburbs like Rinkeby and Tjärna Ängar.
In 2014, left-liberal media, led by the Bonnier-owned Dagens Nyheter (Sweden’s largest daily newspaper), trumpeted that mass migration to Sandviken was a gigantic profitable venture that would make the entire municipality economically prosperous.
“Earns over half a billion from immigration”, read DN’s headline, claiming that each immigrant resident would generate €13,000 annually in revenue for the municipality.
The claims were based on figures in a report by auditing firm PwC and had been commissioned by the municipality itself.
Mass immigration was supposed to be a success for Sandviken. Photo: facsimile/DN
However, the optimistic calculations were based on fantasies and wishful thinking, and within just a couple of years it became clear that the municipality’s financial situation had instead become severely strained – with a budget deficit of €6 million.
— It was a fantasy scenario that was painted. The report was flawed from the beginning. How could anyone stand behind it?wondered Moderate Party opposition councilor Jonny Bratberg in 2019.
“White flight”
And since then, the situation has hardly improved. No billion-euro profits from mass immigration have materialized. Instead, the Swedish government now classifies half of Sandviken as an “exclusion area” – on the same list as notorious immigrant-dense and crime-ridden suburbs like Rinkeby (in Stockholm), Tjärna Ängar in Borlänge, and Gottsunda in Uppsala.
Surveillance cameras now sit on almost every street corner, and Emma Holmqvist, a segregation researcher at Uppsala University, notes that a large portion of the ethnically Swedish population has fled from immigrant-dense parts of Sandviken – and that other Swedes avoid moving there.
— ‘White flight, white avoidance’ is what we call it, says Emma Holmqvist.
— In long-term studies we can see that those with high incomes are partly driving spirals of segregation. They have housing choices that low-income earners lack. They can move away from an area with rental apartments and negative development, simply by purchasing housing.
Swedes don’t want to live with immigrants
She emphasizes, however, that people – regardless of group affiliation – tend to want to live near people who are like themselves, and that this applies to both families with children and high-income earners.
— But one thing that stands out is that many with immigrant backgrounds tend to want to live with more Swedes – the opposite rarely applies to native-born Swedes, she notes.
That Swedes in Sandviken don’t want to live together with immigrants is pointed out as a major and acute problem that must be solved by politicians – for example, by building more rental apartments in villa neighborhoods.
Children as integration tools
The municipality’s politicians have previously attracted attention in connection with a heavily criticized integration initiative where they made the decision to forcibly relocate mainly Swedish children from villa areas to an immigrant-dense, low-performing school in an exclusion area.
The decision enraged many parents and was described as a kind of “social experiment,” where children were involuntarily made into tools in politicians’ integration policy project.
— This is some form of Social Democratic wet dream, where you mix up the students in yet another integration project. You take an A-school and exchange half the students with a D-school, and then you get two C-schools instead – so everyone becomes satisfied and happy. It’s completely insane, of course, commented Jonny Bratberg on the matter in Tidningen Näringslivet (a Swedish business publication).
