It's true that the current white majority of Americans will diminish as we accept more immigrants from areas other than Europe, and as new immigrants tend to have a higher birth rate than non-immigrants.
I expect "whites" to continue to be a plurality of the country for the foreseeable future because:
- immigration will ease somewhat as the non-European world becomes richer
- immigrant birth rates will converge to the rates of non-immigrants
- the definition of "whites" will change and expand as it has in the past. Acculturation (loss of accents, etc.) and intermarriage will see to that.
I expect the culture to continue to be "white", although with changes as the world changes. I think you can still see the imprint of the early white settlers, especially in New England but also in the South, for good and bad on the culture and beliefs of America. I think that will continue.
I might have a different opinion if the "replacements' represented one culture, but they don't. Wherever you look there's variety among the immigrants: Asians from many different countries; Latinos from many different countries; Africans and Afro-Caribbeans from different countries. As they arrive, we lump them together, and they in part accept the lumping. But the differences continue for decades. It's taken more than my lifetime for the differences betwee the WASPs and Eastern/Southern European immigrants after the Civil War to lose their power.
It's not like Eire and Northern Ireland or Israel, where you have two groups, one majority that's shrinking, the other a minority that's growing. That's a much dicier situation, harder to keep calm and more likely, I think, to see a "replacement" occur (though I suspect the cultural differences between Catholics and Protestants, Jews and Arabs are less than those among our immigrants.
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