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Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities (2018) is a book on political demography by Eric Kaufmann.

Blurb:

Whiteshift tells the most important political story of the 21st century: how demographic change is transforming Western politics and how to think about the future of white majorities.

'Powerful and rigorously researched. . . this is a book that speaks to the most urgent and difficult issues of our time' - John Gray, author of Seven Types of Atheism

This is the century of whiteshift. As Western societies are becoming increasingly mixed-race, demographic change is transforming politics. Over half of American babies are non-white, and by the end of the century, minorities and those of mixed race are projected to form the majority in the UK and other countries. The early stages of this transformation have led to a populist disruption, tearing a path through the usual politics of left and right. One of the most crucial challenges of our time is to enable conservatives as well as cosmopolitans to view whiteshift as a positive development.

In this groundbreaking book, political scientist Eric Kaufmann examines the evidence to explore ethnic change in Western Europe and North America. Tracing four ways of dealing with this transformation - fight, repress, flight and join - he charts different scenarios and calls for us to move beyond empty talk about national identity. If we want to avoid more radical political divisions, he argues, we have to open up debate about the future of white majorities.

Deeply thought provoking, Whiteshift offers a wealth of data to redefine the way we discuss race in the twenty-first century.

Notes

Preface

• "Religion of Anti-Racism" by John McWhorter (eg. white privilege = original sin)
• Nathan Glazer and Daniel Bell

Fight

• "safety-without-settlement policy" p. 248
• "It's also important to see that populist-right parties [in Europe] were capitalizing on a public mood, not manufacturing it." p.247
• "People tend to be more favourable when answering a question using the term 'immigrants' than the more impersonal 'immigration'. " p. 241
• "If Western countries are the nearest countries to a conflict, they should accept an unlimited number of refugees. A precedent is the 250,000 Belgians who sheltered in Britain during the First World War then returned home in 1918." p. 239
• "Erasing the line between refuge and settlement makes it more likely countries will bar the door the way they did in 1939. " p. 239
• "There is no absolute legal or ethical right to migrate" Alexander Betts p. 238, failure to respect state sovereignty will result in "mass publics" turning against "the courts"
• Kakuma, lottery, opinion of EK
• "Building secure refugee facilities in the rich countries is the best way forward for the following reasons"EK referencing Paul Collier, p. 233
• "The refugees that make it to the West are a relatively wealthy, male, risk-taking subsample of the total pool of potential claimants." p. 231
• Gay men kissing Dutch film, “It is not a prudent way of welcoming people to the Netherlands” [other source]
• Ron Inglehart
• subtle ways of polling: "'People differ in many ways and each human being is unique. One person likes music, ..." p.219
• "We are, as Jonathan Haidt remarks, part bee, hardwired to be tribal." p.217
• Robert Putnam, "He discovered that Americans stopped having their neighbours over for dinner as often after 1960." p. 217
• "historical traumas" p. 212 "Historical traumas such as Hungary's loss of two thirds of its territory after the First World War, Spain's humiliation in the 1898 Spanish–American War, Germany's"
• "the facts of assimilation" proven where? p. 203
• Propaganda??? p. 202
• "twin studies suggest a third to a half of political behaviour is inherited – and continue with early childhood" p. 199
• "Education and income are correlated, but it's possible to be a successful building contractor with no degree or a penniless graduate." "death penalty" BES p. 198
• The Breaking Point poster is taboo-- EK, p. 195
• "anti-racist taboo", "moral reticence", "generalized other"
• "I'm not a racist but" disclaimer p. 170
• "The smells from the houses will make you heave!" = racist according to EK p.169
• "Cultural reassurance", do we need to give "cultural reassurance" to people, boodschap van algemeen nut, regeringsvoorlichting, see demagogue, demaslave
• White flight/white avoidance; Throughout the Western world, the dominant process is not white flight but white avoidance. p. 166
• "Last Whites of the East End"
• "Other surveys found a near-majority of Britons in favour of banning immigration from Muslim countries" p. 163
• Chicken and egg paradox in media/politic correlation p.161-62
• Too diverse? (2004) by David Goodhart
• Constitutional patriotism by Habermas
• "Thus from a mixture" Defoe
• "These facts make him a racist" p. 145, on Enoch Powell who spoke of "wide grinning pickanninies" gaining the "whip hand" in his "rivers of blood" speech. But, Powell is not a racist for his remark on "neighborhoods changing beyond recognition", "Powell's mention of neighbourhoods changing beyond recognition raises the valid point that the cultural impact of rapid immigration is perceived as negative by most whites in reception areas."
• "Yet many British politicians privately recognized that permitting colonial subjects to migrate freely to Britain would cause a populist backlash." p. 142, see the Commonwealth Immigrants Act
• "It is very good that there are yellow French, black French, brown French. They show that France is open to all races and has a universal vocation. But [it is good] on condition that they remain a small minority. Otherwise, France would no longer be France. We are still primarily a European people of the white race, Greek and Latin culture, and the Christian religion." --De Gaulle (C'est très bien qu'il y ait des Français jaunes, des Français noirs, des Français bruns. Ils montrent que la France est ouverte à toutes les races. Mais à la condition qu'ils restent une petite minorité.), interview with, Alain Peyrefitte, March 5, 1959, following the Algerian independence
• "The American hinterland is unlikely to support white terrorism, but Republican states or rural districts may become openly antagonistic towards the 'alien' federal government and the cities. As I'll argue, it would be far better if a transracial 'white' or American majority could be forged which bridges rural and urban, as occurred when the largely rural Protestant population fused with predominantly urban Catholics and Jews to form a new white majority between the 1960s and 1980s." --p. 136
• "Researchers find that teenagers with more open and exploratory psychological orientations self-select into university.110 This, much more than what people learn at university, makes them more liberal. p.119, see Bram Lancee. Oriane Sarrasin, "Educated Preferences or Selection Effects? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of Educational Attainment on Attitudes Towards Immigrants" (2015)
• "It's not entirely clear if Trump sincerely believes in immigration restriction or merely found it a useful tool to acquire the presidency." p.116
• Cable produced a small bump in Republicanism", "conservative media effect"
• Provision 187, SB 1070
• "rapid ethnic change" p.100
• Salience of immigration vs newspaper articles on the topic of immigration. p. 100
• Neocons vs paleocons
• "creeping Europeanization", "Another index of creeping Europeanization was rising support for same-sex marriage, from 27 per cent in 1996 to 40 per cent in the 2000s to 53 per cent by 2012–13 and 64 per cent in 2017." p. 87
• "conservative evangelicals have cooperated with Sunni Muslim imams, Shiite mullahs, Mormons and the Vatican to stifle UN family planning initiatives" p.86
• Elite level, elite agenda, political elite: the liberal left and the liberal elite
• In need of a scapegoat or a common enemy: "Just as the Civil War dampened anti-Irish sentiment and the Second World War calmed anti-Semitism, it can be argued that the War on Terror muted white ethno-traditionalist opposition to the growing Hispanic and immigrant presence." p.84
• Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster
• "Only if you are living in a rapidly changing neighbourhood will the issue strike you between the eyes." p.78
• Josiah Strong's Our Country (1885)
• Liberal progressives: William James and Felix Adler
• "think how unnatural it would be for a white American to support the white Serbian basketball team against the mainly black American 'Dream Team'!" --p.62
• Randolph Bourne
• Young Intellectuals
• Subaltern
• Theory of Basic Human Values, Pat Dade

Flee

• Norbert Elias and Mary Douglas

See also

• Media effect, ennobling, edification
• Right-wing populism
• Cultural assimilation
• Ethnic conflict
• Race and genetics
• George Bellows
• the Lyrical Left
• Humanitarian visa
• Randolph Bourne
• Correlation
• Working class in the United States
• Causes of the vote in favour of Brexit left-behind hypothesis