While White People Are NOT a Minority in the USA,

[MineralMan]

They only make up about 55-6% of the population nationwide, though. In some states, they are a distinct minority, though. For Christian Nationalists, that is beyond frightening, so they're desperate to avoid a US non-white majority. They're panicked, to put it mildly.

And that's at the core of much of what is going on in the MAGA world. They want to Make America White Again, really: MAWA. They don't say that, exactly, but that's exactly their goal.

They will not succeed in achieving that goal, however. The die is cast. Before long, what they fear will become reality. It's inevitable. See this link to learn more about the distribution of white majorities in US states. Compare those states with the states that are considered to be Red. You'll see the connection.

The push toward eliminating birthright citizenship is about this and only about this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States

[walkingman]

1. 100% agree - that is the reality of MAGA. In 1950, when I was born, whites made up 90% of the population.

[MineralMan]

2. The small California town I grew up in in the 50s and 60s

was over 30% Hispanic. In 2026, it's 86% Hispanic.

California, I think, was the first state to tip to a non-white majority. i could be wrong. It could be Texas or Arizona.

[Wednesdays]

64. And as a result, California has been reliably blue since 1992.

And New Mexico followed suit since 2008. Arizona is heading in that direction.

[Walleye]

3. They are afraid that if they were in the minority, they would be treated the way they treat minorities.

That’s their mortal fear. Totally unjustified, but they are irrational

[MineralMan]

4. Exactly. That's Why Texas Is Trying to Disenfranchise Hispanic

voter. Desperately. Same with Georgia and Alabama with black voters.

[Walleye]

5. I am a baby boomer white woman, and I totally resent this whole thing

Try campaigning on your accomplishments instead of whom you hate, Maga. Oh yeah, can’t. I always feel very uncomfortable when I’m in a large crowd and it’s only white people. I grew up in Delaware, where anybody who wanted to be a Delawarean was welcome

[yardwork]

10. This boomer white woman feels the same.

But we're different from white supremacists. We aren't driven by fear. We aren't driven by greed. We don't view other people as competitors.

You and I and the white people like us realize that when everybody is better off, we're better off too. We realize that a healthy and happy world is a safer world. We realize that people are fundamentally the same, that racial stereotypes are wrong, and that diverse communities are strong communities.

We're up against people who have allowed their emotions and vices to rule their behavior and thinking. Unfortunately a bunch of them are billionaires now and they've bought the politicians and the news media and the social networking platforms.

[Diamond_Dog]

37. Same here. Boomer white woman.

And it embarrasses and disgusts me that so many whites in this country are white supremacists/white nationalists.

[SheilaAnn]

52. I get the feeling there was a great deal of ignorant parenting back in the day. n/t

[allegorical oracle]

65. As a female white boomer, my experience growing up in the south was very

different. Never realized it until I grew up. In our small town Blacks and whites shopped at the same grocery where my white grandmother worked as a cashier. She knew every Black family in town. We made regular trips to their homes to deliver food or clothing if they needed it. And God help anyone who used the "n" word around my mother or grandmother.

Don't get me wrong, there was segregation. Once, when I was very young, I asked my mom why one of the store's water fountains was marked "colored" when it wasn't a color at all -- it was white just like the other fountain. My mother replied, "Because some people are just ignorant."

[niyad]

12. And that is the same reason so many men are against women's rights.

[ZDU]

31. Hear, HEAR!

[Walleye]

39. Yes, excellent point, they know we would treat them equally

They can’t stand the idea that women might have some power, because they’ve abused their power so much

[Diamond_Dog]

46. Way too many men can't tolerate the idea of a woman being in charge of the country.

They can’t abide the idea that a woman could be smarter, more accomplished, or more popular than any male politician.

[Dr. T]

49. True. And weird.

And I believe it's uniquely American. Europe doesn't appear to have this problem.

[Ocelot II]

6. The immigration policies of the Trump regime, concocted mostly by Temu Goebbels,

a/k/a Stephen Miller, are based entirely on notions of white nationalism, which is the next step after white supremacy. White supremacists believe white people are superior to non-white people in all respects and should be in charge of everything. Non-white people are tolerated as long as they "know their place" and don't get too uppity, but they shouldn't expect any of that woke DEI stuff that might help them improve their lot in society. White nationalists go further - they want to eliminate non-white people from the US altogether, which perfectly explains Miller's deportation quotas. Those quotas could not be met by deporting only the dangerous criminals because there weren't enough of them. So they just started rounding up anybody who wasn't white, abducting them from bus stops and workplaces regardless of their immigration status, and taking them into ICE custody - something we saw first-hand here in Minneapolis this winter (and it's still going on in the suburbs and smaller cities). Anyone who looked "foreign" - that is, Hispanic or Asian or Somali - was and is a target. Tiny Nazi Greg Bovino announced that the goal is to deport 100 million people, almost a third of the total population, and a number that accounts for almost all of the non-white immigrants plus a fair number of citizens. It's ethnic cleansing with the intent of creating a 100% white society, or at least an apartheid society. Eliminating birthright citizenship is definitely part of the plan.

[yardwork]

7. Some political scientists think that this fear is behind the global shift toward fascism.

Over the past 100 years there has been a great increase in global health and wellbeing. A lot of this is due to vaccines. And medical research. And humanitarian public health efforts.

As a result, many Black and brown people across the world are doing ok. Their standard of living is better. They send their children to schools and those children become doctors and engineers and scientists and business people. A global middle class is rising up all over the world.

The world's wealth and privilege is no longer exclusively in the hands of white elites in Europe and America.

And that is freaking out some of the white elites.

It's no accident that the billionaires who put Trump in power immediately went after vaccines, medical research, and USAID.

[MineralMan]

9. I think that is exactly correct.

It makes people very dangerous, that sort of fear.

[yardwork]

14. Especially when they have billions of dollars to spend

[leftstreet]

22. +1

[Martin Eden]

36. Eliminating USAID had nothing to do with "government efficiency"

Millions of deaths among black and brown people is the desired result.

[yardwork]

53. Exactly.

That was the entire point of DOGE. They all said so themselves.

Our problem in the US is that a lot of our fellow citizens agree with it.

[multigraincracker]

8. I'm a shade of pinkness gray.

Close your eyes and there only one race, the human race.

[MineralMan]

11. Yes, of course.

That's how things really are. That frightens some people, though, and then they get angry and dangerous.

[3catwoman3]

23. When filling out paper forms at doctors' offices, etc, was still...

...how things were done, whenever I got to the race question, I'd go to the "other" box and write in "HUMAN." I don't know if anyone ever noticed, but it was a tiny rebellion that felt good.

[multigraincracker]

25. I do the same.

[Marcuse]

13. History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme.

[yardwork]

15. That fear never went away.

It's behind all of this... waves hands.

[MineralMan]

17. Same Old Story, Isn't It?

[ananda]

16. This is worth repeating a million times a day!

The main driver of all Republicans is fear
of losing white supremacy.

They'll tolerate anything as long as that
is their candidate's policy.

[MineralMan]

19. Exactly.

[SamuelAdams]

18. Absolutely correct.

The white population is older and not having many kids. Whites are already a minority among younger Americans. It's the same reason they cling so hard to the confederacy. They are desperate to go back to the past when whites ran everything and being racist was fine.

[MineralMan]

20. It's a Hopeless Expectation, Though.

They will lose, inevitably. Not soon enough, I fear, but inevitably.

[Joinfortmill]

21. Such idiots. I guess they think everyone is an ass like them

[leftstreet]

24. DURec

[FakeNoose]

26. Native Americans would like a word ....

We always seem to forget that Native American tribes were here at least 2,000 years before any "white" European visitors showed up.

[MineralMan]

30. Sadly, yes.

Theirs is the story of every indigenous people wherever the European white folks came and took over.

Globally.

[House of Roberts]

50. 2000 years?

From a Google search:
The Clovis people were a prehistoric Paleo-American culture that flourished across North America roughly 13,000 to 12,600 years ago.
snip
However, modern archaeological discoveries have proven that pre-Clovis populations arrived thousands of years earlier.

I was pretty sure that was a very conservative estimate. Certainly, they have been here a long time across the entire continent.

[Cheezoholic]

27. This is why they want to burn the Constitution and tear down the government as it is

Our Constitution has been fading in color from white literally and figuratively especially over the last 150 years. As we progress IT is giving voice to ALL people more and more. Sure its still skewed white male landowner IMO but the very nature of its core is what empowers ALL people in this country no matter what. Whitey hates that shit and wants it gone.

[3catwoman3]

28. I was thrilled by the election of Barack Obama, for many reasons, and thought...

...naively as it turned out, that it was a sign the US was growing up, attitudinally.

How wrong I was.

[BlueTsunami2018]

29. I don't know that the rulers give a shit who is here to exploit.

But they definitely want this division among the workers because it keeps them in power. That’s all they care about, keeping us divided about stupid shit so we never get together and take them down. That’s what it’s always been about and will always be about until people finally figure it out.

And once the racial makeup changes, whenever that may be, they’ll find something else to keep the working class divided.

[MineralMan]

33. Well, I believe they will lose in the end.

But, that's just an 80-year-old man speaking. I do believe that it is inevitable that the white nationalists lose. it may take a bit longer, but the desperation is showing and their plan is breaking down, even as we write.

[BlueTsunami2018]

57. I hope so.

I just hate that there is going to have to be suffering on a massive scale before the People put aside their petty differences and revolt against the power structure in a meaningful way.

You see how they’re reacting to Mamdani and the growing number of leftish politicians who are starting to ascend. They aren’t going away without a fight.

[llmart]

60. I agree with you.

It's already happening with younger generations. I'm a 77 year old white woman and I spent my last ten years of my career working at post-secondary schools where students worked for me. I got to know so many of them and heard their opinions, stories about their everyday lives, etc. and I saw that the white people did not have the same attitude of privilege that prior generations had. Diversity is just a part of their lives and their relationships, and they don't really think much about it. Yes, there will always be some - MAGA for instance - that don't evolve or have any notion of self-reflection. People like that WILL be the minority if they aren't already. The truth is, we are never going back to the 1950's which is what they think can happen. We always move forward eventually. This period in our history is just a blip. You and I won't live to see it unfortunately, but I take great pleasure in witnessing the changes that have already happened in our lifetimes.

[Martin Eden]

45. These "Christians" embrace Donald Trump as the savior of America

Donald Trump -- the most amoral un-christian POtuS ever to shit in the White House.

[BlueTsunami2018]

55. Yes but it's only a division tactic.

To keep the ruling class in power. They use these so-called Christians, working class people, to keep us at each other’s throats with their perverted version of faith. Piss doesn’t care about religion, none of the oligarchs and other owners do but they’ll use it as means to continue extracting everything they can from our labor.

That’s all it’s about.

[Martin Eden]

32. Why are "Christian Nationalists" frightened of changing racial demographics?

Isn't Christianity the prodominent religion among Hispanics and Blacks in the United States?

I think the answer to that question is obvious.

The people frightened by changing racial demographics are NOT "Christian" Nationalists; they are WHITE NATIONALISTS.

[MineralMan]

34. OK. Call Them White Nationalists. I'm Good with That.

[MineralMan]

35. Another Note: Christianity Is Not a Single Religion Any Longer.

It hasn't been for a very long time. It has splintered so many times that Christianity can no longer be defined successfully.

[Martin Eden]

38. Christian sects have a bloody history against each other

But do they not ALL ostensibly believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ as Saviour and the Son of God?

[MineralMan]

40. I'm afraid that is a secondary thing for most Christians.

It's their shortcut to "Eternal Life," but once they have that, it becomes irrelevant.

It's all nonsense, anyhow, as any cemetery demonstrates. Folks are still down there, buried in the dirt. No escaping that.

[Martin Eden]

42. No shortage of "Christian" hypocrites

I have often said they use their "ticket to heaven" as a license for greed, cruelty, and other behaviors against everything Jesus reportedly taught.

My point has to do with whether or not a religion or sect can be defined as "Christian" based on the primary tenet of Jesus as divine saviour.

Semantics, I suppose, not central to the issue of White Nationalism as a force in American politics.

[yardwork]

44. They're misusing Christianity in exactly the ways Jesus warned about.

If they read the bible at all I think they're using it as a how-to manual for worshipping mammon.

[Martin Eden]

47. And they're embracing the kind of tyrant America's Founders warned of

They betray both Jesus and America while thumping the bible and draping themselves in the flag.

[MineralMan]

56. Religions and deities are creations of human beings.

We can always adapt religions to suit our own desires, and we commonly do just that. The Bible, for example, also written by human beings, is a very large book. One can find almost anything in it and apply it to society. "It's in the Bible!"

Other religions have the same thing in their scriptures. It's all in there. Whatever humans do is in the scriptures. One way or another,, scripture is adapted to the whims of humans.

Human society and its religions are complex things. From complexity, one can support pretty much any argument.

And so it is written...

[GiqueCee]

41. The pitiful weakness...

... of character displayed by these racist turdblossoms is what the rest of the world sees in all of us. Yes, they are a minority, but a very loud and obnoxious one. And, while it's true that there are lot of other societies that are exclusionary, particularly religious ones, we're the ones with a giant statue welcoming "your tired, your poor, you huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
I'm just waiting for Nosferatu Miller to call for the demolition of the Statue of Liberty, which he's more than capable of doing. He's too arrogant to realize that following such a proclamation, he could probably count his remaining days on one hand, with fingers left over.
Few, if any, would mourn his passing.

[twodogsbarking]

43. I grew up where nearly everyone was white. For 40+ years I have lived in a university town that has

so many different nationalities. It is great to live near so many different types of people. Would really miss it if I moved. Not everyone feels as I do but fuck them.

[Jilly_in_VA]

48. They want to be Suid Afrika all over again

complete with total apartheid. Let's go over again how well THAT worked.

[nikatnyte]

51. Behold the beauty of a diverse world

I'm a white male boomer, born in 1951. When I was a kid, I turned on the TV and saw almost exclusively white people, in the shows and commercials. When I went to the movies, they were cast with mostly white people. When I read magazines, they were mostly about white people. When I turned on the radio, most of the singers were white. On the rare occasions I saw people of color, I was fascinated. Who were these folks? Why were they treated so different? I never could understand it.

I've been blessed to live in an age where all that has changed dramatically. Gradually, I began seeing black and brown people more in the media, on the street, in the stores, in school. I fell in love with black music on the radio. My best friend was Japanese-American, my next door neighbor was Mexican-American, my aunt's boyfriend was Black. All of this was wonderful. I felt like Dorothy emerging from a monochrome world into an Oz-like paradise of color and incredible diversity.

Who in their right mind would want to give that up? How can anyone feel threatened by the full spectrum of beauty the world has to offer? Going back to an all-white world would be like putting on blinders and blocking out most of what makes life worth living.

[TBF]

54. A lot of this comes from Texas -

don't came at me - I've lived here over 20 years now and have observed the White Nationals in person. There are 30 million people here now - 2nd only to Cali

Let's look at census (I just pulled out the biggest categories): numbers are (2000) (2010) (2020)

White alone (10,933,313) (11,397,345) (11,584,597)
Black or African American alone (2,364,255) (2,886,825) (3,444,712)
Asian alone (554,445) (948,426) (1,561,518)
Hispanic or Latino (6,669,666) (9,460,921) (11,441,717)

Whites are holding steady, but blacks, asians, and latinos are growing faster. This scares the crap out of the good ole boys & gals (esp. in rural areas). Imo, the Latinos that are freaking them out. It is crazy for them to over-react because many Latinos actually are Catholic and religious - many are anti-abortion. But, no, they freaked out and decided they were going to deport as many black & brown people as they could. It's insane, but that's Greg Abbott.

[Wednesdays]

66. That Texas is in play for senator this year is telling.

It's no longer deep-red, but moving closer to purple. Once Texas turns blue like California did, it's all over as far as presidential elections is concerned.

[dedl67]

58. The rearguard action of these people will not change the direction of history.

[republianmushroom]

59. But they will be soon, the minority.

And that, scares the crap out of the republicans.

[Iggo]

61. One of their biggest fears is to be treated like white people have historically treated non-white people.

(I’m half white and I look white. I’ve been to the meetings…lol.)

[Marcuse]

62. "The push toward eliminating birthright citizenship is about this and only about this."

Also explains mass deportation, mass incarceration, mass gerrymandering and mass forced procreation.

[Wednesdays]

63. Within the next generation, non-hispanic whites will be the minority.

If that isn't reflected in the composition of the legislature, the USA will then have its own version of apartheid.