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Fewer Births Than Deaths Among Whites in Majority of U.S. States

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Re: Fewer Births Than Deaths Among Whites in Majority of U.S. States

#11

This phenomenon and a host of other's happening in U.S currently are the reasons why trump was elected. Edit: relax people I'm black not racist what I mean to say is that the rise of China's economy and the dwindling influence of whites in the sphere of things globally is what brought trump to power

How so?

Because racists are terrified of the idea of non-whites making up a larger percentage of the population than they do currently.

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#12

This phenomenon and a host of other's happening in U.S currently are the reasons why trump was elected. Edit: relax people I'm black not racist what I mean to say is that the rise of China's economy and the dwindling influence of whites in the sphere of things globally is what brought trump to power

You are blaming the GOP (whose economic policies are the primary driver of low birth rates) for electing Trump. Good job!

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#14

This phenomenon and a host of other's happening in U.S currently are the reasons why trump was elected. Edit: relax people I'm black not racist what I mean to say is that the rise of China's economy and the dwindling influence of whites in the sphere of things globally is what brought trump to power

Everyone has a 'reason' why Trump was elected, but for some reason people can only see this in a post-hoc fashion. How many people were talking about 'the reason Trump will be elected' before Nov 8th 2016? It's easy to backport your beliefs onto known events, but you really have no basis for believing it to be a better than random predictor of the future.

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#15

This phenomenon and a host of other's happening in U.S currently are the reasons why trump was elected. Edit: relax people I'm black not racist what I mean to say is that the rise of China's economy and the dwindling influence of whites in the sphere of things globally is what brought trump to power

You are blaming the GOP (whose economic policies are the primary driver of low birth rates) for electing Trump. Good job!

I'm sorry but I strongly disagree that political policies generally lead to higher or lower birth rates.

Birth rates are largely correlated to the developmental level of a country at a more macro-level.

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#16

This is good! When combined with closed borders, it means there are more resources to go around for the remaining people!

Older people are not as productive or innovative as younger people. Therefore, there will be fewer things produced and less to go around for "the remaining people."

Everyone ends up poorer.

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#17
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How so?

Because racists are terrified of the idea of non-whites making up a larger percentage of the population than they do currently.

It's this vicious rhetoric and finger pointing that lead to the election of Donald J Trump.

Re: Fewer Births Than Deaths Among Whites in Majority of U.S. States

#19
I love a click-bait headline and identity politics for its own sake as much as the next person but there's little mention of controlling for age or inter-state migration.

Of course more white people are dying in AZ, FL, and other places white people with the means tend to retire to. Of course more white people are dying than being born in places that are mostly white and young people are moving away from (rural areas).

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#20

This is simple mathematics. If your birthrate is below replacement rate, pretty soon your population's births will outnumber its deaths. The only reason the United States hasn't seen a shrinking population (and stagnating economy) like much of Europe and Japan is due to immigration: https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/11/10/16631980/fertili...

Exactly.

Population deceleration is a global crisis and virtually nobody is talking about it. It could mean the end of Western civilization.

Our governments are built upon the assumption that the population will continue to increase, that there will be more taxpayers tomorrow to shoulder the burden of today’s spending. When the population begins to decrease in a few decades, every successive generation will have a lower standard of living than the one that proceded it. Having children will become more expensive which will lead to even more decline. Western countries will enter a death spiral and might never escape.

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