In decades past, people actually moved to California for the superior education, from K-12 through college, and the other opportunities that would benefit their children. Today, middle class people are fleeing Mexifornia to find communities still recognizable as America, where it’s not necessary to place youngsters in private school to have them speak English all day.

Now another educational study has shown that your kids will be better off if they are raised in monocultural America than in bastions of earnest multiculturalism. California has invested huge amounts of money into keeping its educational system afloat — over $66 billion for K-12 for 2006-7, a 6.6% increase over the previous year — as the state tries vainly to hold up against the tsunami of illiteracy and diversity.

But throwing money at Mexican children, coming as they do from an unscholarly culture, doesn’t help. The high school graduation rate of hispanics is still pathetic (around 50 percent), a social norm that doesn’t improve much over several generations. As Sam Huntington pointed out, less than 10 percent of fourth-generation Mexican-Americans earn a post-high-school degree, compared with 45 percent of Americans as a whole.

So it’s not surprising that the Mexican malaise is spreading within the California host.

California ranked 34th among the states and was below the national average in seven areas: percent of children whose parents work full-time, speak English, graduated from college, earn at least a middle-level income; percent of children proficient in reading and proficient in math; and percent of adults who work full time.

California had by far the nation’s lowest percentage of children whose parents speak fluent English: 62 percent. The next lowest was 73 percent, in Texas. Nearly everyone’s parents speak English in Virginia: 91 percent.
[State's children less likely to succeed, San Francisco Chronicle 1/4/07]

The national map of the study’s results shows that even rich states can be brought down by excessive immigration and poor states near the border have little chance of holding their own.

Steve Sailer will be on the Ron Smith radio show on WBAL in Baltimore (AM1090) on Thursday, January 4th from 5 to 6 pm Eastern Standard Time. You can listen in over the Internet here.

From experience in the New York City Playground Wars, I instantly recognized UNC law professor Eric Muller and talk show host Brad Kratz’s type - arrogant, aggressive, domineering, so spoiled that they throw tantrums when checked or criticized…and, well, infantile and stupid. When we exposed this little Carolina Cabal as conspiring to get VDARE.COM off the air this summer, I wasn’t surprised that, instead of owning up to it like men and saying that they genuinely think we’re a “hate site“, they instead squalled that I was lying…and that we WERE TOO a hate site as well!!!

This was childish, of course, because (a) Krantz had already told our publicist that my interview was cut short because he’d gotten a call from a “friend” at UNC law school; (b) Muller, foolishly given the case he subsequently is trying to make, admitted emailing Krantz with scabrous accusations about us. But it was significant because it shows the way the Carolina Cabal, and their ilk, think: everyone lies about politics. Similarly, they notoriously defended Bill Clinton by saying everyone lies about sex.

Speak for yourselves, guys. I guess it’s a cultural thing.

So I’m not surprised to find Muller and Krantz lying further as we pile on the evidence. Two examples:

1) Muller blogs that I cite “a communication that WZTK told him he’d be on from 8:10 to 8:30 a.m., which (at least as I recall from 6 months ago) he was”… i.e I wasn’t cut of the air abruptly.

But in fact anyone who follows the link can see that the email I cited clearly said I’d be on from 8:10 to 9:00 am.

This isn’t even intelligent lying, it’s just compulsive. Has anyone really ever hired this idiot to litigate anything?

2) Several readers have told me that Krantz is claiming he’s invited me back on the show but that I hadn’t replied. I was genuinely puzzled by this, since the only email I’ve gotten from Krantz is the one posted on Muller’s blog. I certainly hadn’t noticed any invitation, but looking at it again I think this is the Krantz passage in question:

Possibly you may wish to come back on with us to apologize (for among other things giving out confidential phone numbers…that’s a cheap tactic of intimidation as I’m sure you know) and correct the record, along with someone like Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center or Eric Muller from UNC himself.

(Tellingly, Muller excised the last 18 words without any indication - probably because the SPLC is a notorious leftist racket…and because Muller himself is afraid to debate me.)

Well. jeez (so to speak). I guess I didn’t think that was an invitation. I thought it was yet another insult. What have I got to apologize for? I’m not trying to abolish the historic American Nation.

Brad Krantz does not want me to appear on his silly show. If he does, he has only to email and suggest a date. Or call - he has my number because I left it on all his (n.b. business) voicemails when I was trying to find out what happened this summer. Maybe he should have had the courtesy to return our calls. Maybe this will be a lesson in his Americanization.

Email Muller. Email Krantz.

And God Bless the wonderful number of you who have done so already.

We shall overcome!

When I am the only English-speaking person riding the bus I am not celebrating diversity, but hoping that the next earthquake does not happen until after I get off.

In the same way, emergency planning in the United States of Babel is made vastly more difficult by our colorful assortment of languages, particularly in New York City [NYC's language issues adds challenge to emergency planning Newsday 12/29/06]

The city has made efforts to address the problem. Among other things, the guide for a coastal storm situation is in 11 languages, with more on the way. And 311, the city’s information number, can be used in 170 languages. [...]

Census estimates put the number of New Yorkers who speak English less than very well at about 1.7 million, out of a city of more than 8 million. About 15 percent of city households are linguistically isolated, meaning no one over the age of 14 speaks English very well.

The majority of those people are covered by a handful of main languages, including Spanish, Russian and Chinese, but there are scores of other tongues spoken in the Big Apple.

There’s no mention of what all this diversity costs the taxpayer however. Nor does any public official suggest that “immigrants” have a responsibility to learn the language of the country they inhabit, even to save their own skins in an emergency.