The MSM likes to call immigration’s demographic tsunami “diversity” but there’s nothing diverse about what’s happening to California: the population is becoming Mexicanized, as black and white Americans are being replaced by citizens of Mexico.

At worst, the Associated Press finds the results of the latest study to be “challenging” [ California population will grow older, more diverse, report says]

In just 15 years, one in seven Californians will be age 65 or older, the state will add 10 million residents, and Hispanics will account for 43 percent of the population, with whites accounting for about 34 percent.

The white and Hispanic populations are expected to become equal in 2010, when each is projected to account for 39 percent of the population, said Barbara Baran, associate director of the organization and the report’s author.

California is poised to become Mexifornia, a balkanized, multilingual third-world region with a rapidly declining standard of living, mirroring its plummeting level of education, largely because of the growing numbers of hispanics and particularly Mexicans.

Mexicans are arguably the least successful nationality ever to immigrate to this country. Even four generations along, Mexicans have not begun to assimilate to American standards of education: just 9.6 percent of fourth-generation Mexican Americans have a post-high-school degree, compared with 45.1 percent of Americans as a whole, a stunning disparity (as analysed by Sam Huntington in his important book “Who Are We?”).

Short-term open-border policies aimed at keeping labor costs low are dismantling the strategies that made California, and the nation, spectacularly successful, and all we hear from the MSM is the joy of diversity.

Virginia men in the form of George Washington severed America’s link with Great Britain, and in the form of Robert E. Lee almost severed the link between the South and the North. Now, according to CNN, a “Virginia man” intended to sever George W. Bush from America. [Would-be Bush assasin could face life CNN.com November 23 2005]

Watch out for this terminological outrage, noted by my brother in February, over the next few days. Abu Ali’s only resemblence to Robert E. Lee was in wearing a beard (and that has the wrong color).

To be fair to CNN, they did subsequently in their account describe Abu Ali as “Arab-American”.

So why not do that from the start?

A good way of avoiding these problems, of course, is not to have Muslim/Arab immigrants in the first place.

Stephen Steinlight, please call home!

In the UK, a fringe party politician, and fifty supporters engage in a violent immigration related protest. The politician is arrested, and charged with

charged with acting in a disorderly manner, placing blockades on access gates, tampering with security gates, blocking an access road, and committing a breach of the peace.

Sounds very familiar. Can we expect the full weight of Britain’s anti-hate laws to fall on him? No!

Because the politician in this case is the Scottish Socialist Tommy Sheridan, a member of the Scottish Parliament, and he’s protesting in favor of immigration, and against enforcing the immigration laws, so any hatred involved is directed at the natives of Great Britain, which doesn’t count. [Sheridan charged over immigration protest, The Times, (London)November 23, 2005]

Following up on John Brimelow’s blog regarding the “poisonous advice” given to the GOP in the Washington Post by ethnic identity specialist Leslie Sanchez (“Virginia’s Message to the GOP,” Leslie Sanchez, November 19, 2005), I recommend that Republicans look at California history instead of listening to the empty words of a paid shill.

Pre Arnold Schwarzenegger, the last Republican to be elected as California governor was Pete Wilson who won in 1994 by running on a strong anti-illegal alien platform.

By 1998, Republicans had been scared off the immigration issue by the increasingly vocal (and Hispanic) California State Legislature. Accordingly, Gray Davis hammered the absurdly cautious Dan Lungren who never mentioned the word “immigration.”

In 2002, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon proved that he learned nothing from Lungren’s error. Simon too remained silent about California’s ever increasing illegal alien population. Consequently, Simon could not unseat a very unpopular Davis.

California Republicans seeking election to the U.S. Senate fared no better. Dianne Feinstein beat incumbent John F. Seymour (who had been appointed by Wilson when Wilson became California governor in 1992) and Tom Campbell in 2000.

And Barbara Boxer made short work of Republicans Matt Fong in 1998 and Bill Jones in 2004.

What did Lungren, Simon, Seymour, Fong and Jones all have in common? They consistently avoided speaking out about illegal immigration even though the issue had been a winner for Wilson.

Here’s some sound VDARE.COM strategy for politicians based on California history: don’t be cowed. State the anti-illegal immigration case early and often.

And whatever you do, don’t back down.