by Philip Giraldi, The Unz Review:
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Charles Murray — who may be the most careful, undeceived social scientist in America — recently posted this graph based on data taken from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.
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He thought it was remarkable that suddenly in 2020, millions of Hispanics stopped identifying as white. He noted that this could be due partly to changes in the wording of survey questions, but it still looked like a stampede away from whiteness.
He wasn’t the only one who noticed. The Los Angeles Times asked, “Why did so few Latinos identify themselves as white in the 2020 census?” adding that between 2010 and 2020, the number of Hispanics who said they were white fell from 53 percent to 20 percent.
This is a big change from just a few years ago. In 2014, the New York Times ran the opposite headline: “More Hispanics Declaring Themselves White,” pointing out that between the 2000 and 2010 censuses, 2.7 million Hispanics ditched some other identity and called themselves white instead.
The article went on to say that “if Hispanics ultimately identify as white Americans, then whites will remain the majority for the foreseeable future.”
This idea isn’t new. Twelve years ago, a publication called Latino Decisions explained that “Latino Racial Identification Stabilizes Declining U.S. White Population.”
It noted that between 2000 and 2010, the white American population grew by 6.5 percent, and that Hispanics- who- said- they- were- white accounted for 74 percent of that growth. The author added that thanks to white-identifying Hispanics, we can look forward to “a renewed growth of the U.S. white population.”
How nice. If enough Mexicans and Salvadorans say they’re white, America will stay white forever.
The theory behind this is that the boundaries of whiteness shift all the time. The New York Times article I mentioned cheerly suggests that “Hispanics may assimilate as white Americans, like the Italians or Irish, who were not universally considered to be white.”
You see, the way it works is that white people cynically change racial definitions to suit themselves, and when they give others the chance to be white, they jump at it.
This 2014 article called “Why are Hispanics identifying as white?” has it figured out.
