Showing posts with label immigration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label immigration. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 07, 2023

Myth America III

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 Next two chapters in Myth America are on Native Americans, by Ari Kelman, and Emigration, by Erika Lee. The first seems loosely focused ar...
Wednesday, July 06, 2022

Douglass on USA Mission

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Frederick Douglass had a speech on the US, partially focused on Chinese immigration during a time when that was a big thing.   Our geographi...
Wednesday, June 08, 2022

Why I Don't Believe in Great (White) Replacement Theory

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 It's true that the current white majority of Americans will diminish as we accept more immigrants from areas other than Europe, and as ...
Sunday, March 20, 2022

Signs of the Times--Regeneron

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 Back in my time it was the Westinghouse Science Search  but now it's Regeneron  (it's a biotech company which I had to look up). He...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Labor Shortage?--Open the Borders

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 This post  at Econofact notes the drop in immigration, and relates it to our current economy: Due to increased restrictions on immigration ...
Friday, July 23, 2021

Migrating to Opportunity

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 David Brooks has an column in today's NYTimes on the question: "How racist is America?" His answer seems to be--getting less...
Tuesday, March 02, 2021

Election Reforms from the Past

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 Thanks to someone (on the right but I forget the name) I looked up the  Carter-Baker Federal election commission. A blast from the past is ...
Sunday, October 04, 2020

Immigrant Remittances

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 The Post has an article on reverse emigration; the pandemic forcing migrants who lost their jobs to return home. What I found interesting w...
Saturday, August 15, 2020

The Strange Death of Europe

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 I skimmed through this 2017 book  by Douglas Murray. It's interesting, because it's a very Euro-centric view of migration, but you ...
Thursday, August 06, 2020

Immigration and Rationing by Friction

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I'm reading " The Strange Death of Europe" by Douglas Murray.  As you can  guess from the title it's anti-immigration but...
Thursday, February 06, 2020

Was President Wilson Really Bad?

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Since my college days the reputation of President Wilson has collapsed, mostly because his racism has gained attention. But I'm puzzle...
Sunday, December 08, 2019

A Tale of Two, No Three, Countries

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Marginal Revolution reports Sydne y has more foreign-born residents than all of mainland China. Kottke l inks to a map of the 637 language...
Tuesday, November 05, 2019

Voting Today: One of the Fears of Some Trump Supporters

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My wife and I just got back from voting in VA. Polls seemed busy, although it was a longer ballot than our June primary election so that mig...
Monday, October 28, 2019

Second-Generation Migrants Do Well

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NYTimes reports on a study comparing the economic status of second-generation immigrants--the children of immigrants--to the child of compar...
Friday, October 25, 2019

A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves

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That's the t itle of Jaon DEParle's new book .  It's an interesting read--DeParle moves between the saga of an extended Filopino...
Monday, October 14, 2019

On Columbus and Italians

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Josh Marshall has thoughts on Columbus / I'm old enough to remember when WASP's looked dubiously on Catholics (specifically and es...
Thursday, August 15, 2019

Bowling Alone and White Identity

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To expand on the last paragraph of my post yesterday, which read: "Another note--it seems to me in the 1950's older people had firm...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019

The Wave of the Future

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NYTimes reports on refugees from Africa coming to Portland, ME.  Part of the reason for their selection of Portland is prior immigrants hav...
Friday, June 07, 2019

Did Trump Shoot Himself in the Foot

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I wonder whether President Trump didn't shoot himself in the foot on immigration.  This Post article has this graph of apprehensions .,...
Friday, May 17, 2019

Powerline and Althouse Wouldn't Qualify as Immigrants

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Nor would almost all liberals blogging and tweeting.   See this NY Times calculator. I scored 18 points, where 30 is required.  (The key, ...