The Strange Death of White America
A Tale of Joe Biden's Presidency
Readers’ Note: I know I usually publish my traditional newsletters on Sundays, but I had travel plans again and unfortunately did not have the time necessary to commit to writing one at the level I think my readers deserve. I spent a considerable amount of time researching this piece and hope readers will enjoy it until next Sunday. I apologize for missing two consecutive newsletters.
For decades now, America’s rapid demographic change has been celebrated by elite institutions and establishment political parties on both the left and the right. Mass immigration was supposed to infuse our country with millions of new residents. Joe Biden embodied a brand of politics where vacuous platitudes, such as “diversity is our greatest strength,” were the answer to complex questions of culture, economics, and declining social trust.
His presidency ushered in the largest demographic shift in American history during any four-year period. It wasn’t until the Census posted the data that it became clear just how transformative the last four years were. In 2021, Hispanics outnumbered whites in California for the first time since it joined the union, and the same is true of Texas in 2022.
A phenomenon that none of the experts celebrating this demographic transformation predicted, however, is not just that America’s native white population is not just shrinking as a percentage of the population, but dying off and decreasing in overall numbers.
Throughout Biden’s presidency, America’s population grew by 6.01 million Hispanics, 2.54 million Asians, 1.235 million blacks, but lost 2.145 million whites. The native white population actually shrank by over 3 million and only rebounded slightly with the influx of more than a million European, Canadian, and Australian immigrants.
Of course, this number wasn’t evenly distributed across the country.
Now, remember that over the last four years, the nation's debt has increased due to COVID-19-related school and business closures, a sharp rise and then sudden decrease in violent crime, and crippling levels of inflation. All of these events altered interstate migration.
White Americans also increasingly moved to counties that shared their political ideology. Blueing areas around metro Atlanta emptied, as did states dominated by progressive politics, such as Illinois, New York, and California. Progressive whites, especially millennials and Gen-Z, however, continued to flock en masse to blue hotspots like Dane County, Wisconsin; Broomfield, Colorado; and Santa Fe, New Mexico.