Blowing Smoke - Michael Wolraich [55]
Here you have persecution politics in a nutshell. In 1990, blacks held 5 percent of U.S. congressional seats and Latinos held 3 percent. There was not a single black or Latino senator.63 And yet Buchanan concluded that there was no one to speak for the “Euro-Americans.”
National Suicide
As the new millennia dawned, Buchanan grew increasingly fatalistic about the future of the white race. His 2002 book, The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization, begins with a quote from T. S. Eliot: “This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper.”ax In his 2007 book, Day of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed Are Tearing America Apart, Buchanan argued that America is literally self-destructing:
America is indeed coming apart, decomposing, and . . . the likelihood of her survival as one nation through mid-century is improbable—and impossible if America continues on her current course. For we are on a path to national suicide.64
For Buchanan, “national suicide” is synonymous with racial heterogeneity. He argued that “the American majority,” by which he meant America’s white population, is simply not procreating quickly enough to keep ahead of the tsunami of dark-skinned immigrants and fast-breeding minorities.
The American majority is not reproducing itself. Its birthrate has been below replacement level for decades. Forty-five million of its young have been destroyed in the womb since Roe v. Wade as Asian, African, and Latin American children come to inherit the state the lost generation of American children never got to see.”65
Right-wing radio host Michael Savage also saw a connection between the great white depopulation and the Gay Agenda. “With the [Latino] population that has emerged, since they breed like rabbits, in many cases the whites will become a minority in their own nation,” he told listeners. “The white people don’t breed as often for whatever reason. I guess many homosexuals are involved. That is also part of the grand plan, to push homosexuality to cut down on the white race.”66
Without a single dominant (white) culture, Buchanan predicted that the nation would “Balkanize,” becoming culturally, geographically, and racially divided. The black and brown folks don’t melt nicely into the pot the way the white immigrants of old did. They don’t share the culture of “the American majority,” and they lack Euro-Americans’ moral and intellectual fiber. “Almost as many African-American males are in jail or prison as are in colleges or universities,” Buchanan charged. “Half of all African-American and Hispanic students drop out of high school. The other half graduates with the math and reading skills of seventh-, eighth- and ninth-graders. Yet by 2050 the number of African-Americans and Hispanics will have almost doubled from today’s 85 million, to 160 million.”ay67
Buchanan even found a way to fit the Culture War into his grand epic of national collapse. He warned readers that America’s “ethnocultural core has begun to dissolve.”68 (Scotty to bridge, she cannae take much more of this, captain!) America’s ethnocultural core apparently consists in our shared faith in Christ, heterosexual marriage, and the late Terri Schiavo’s vegetative brain. It is the glue that preserves a multiethnic nation likes ours from disintegration in ethnic conflict. In other words, Christian faith is what prevents one ethnic group from hating another ethnic group. Ponder that one for a while.
La Reconquista
Buchanan’s Balkanization theory is not just figurative. In his 2006 book, State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, Buchanan introduced nervous white readers to the Reconquista. The original Reconquista refers to the Christian recapture of Spain from the Moors, led by Charlemagne and others. Back in the 1980s, Mexicans referred jokingly to U.S. real estate acquisitions by affluent Mexicans as a reconquista of the territories that Mexico lost to the United States during the Mexican-American War in the late