Friday, May 04, 2018

Links in a great chain

As someone with high hopes for Nicholas Fuentes, this discussion does not disappoint. Richard Spencer, whose career I've followed for a decade now, is in top form.

Except for when he offers up this canard, that is:



This assertion was initially reported by the US Census in May of 2012 based on population estimates from 2011. Fortunately, the CDC releases actual birth data for the previous year based on all recorded births across the entire country each June. A month after the Census' sensational estimate, the actual figures came out and undercut the incorrect estimate. And that incorrect estimate has continued to be incorrect in each subsequent year.

The following table shows the actual percentage of total births in the US that were to non-Hispanic white mothers by year going back to 2011 (sources for 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016):

YearWhite births
201154.4%
201254.0%
201354.1%
201453.9%
201553.5%
201652.1%

Some of these white women are of course giving birth to multiracial babies. For obvious reasons, tracking the mother's race is easier than tracking the father's. By a strictly one-drop rule, the percentage of births to whites is surely below 50%, probably well below it, since baby Elizabeth Warren and Nick Fuentes would be included in the non-white tally by this accounting. It would also dictate we describe the US on the order of 1% or 2% black, since the majority of blacks in America have some European ancestry.

Parenthetically, Spencer's example of Alabama is way off the mark. As of 2016, the latest year for which data is available, 60% of babies born in the state were non-Hispanic white (at the link are pie charts showing the racial distribution of births for all 50 states and the Imperial Capital).

The thrust of what Spencer says doesn't suffer a loss of relevance just because it's exaggerated, but precision is important. So is avoiding unnecessarily ingesting black pills. We're not licked yet.

A primary purpose of the alt right (or dissident right, or identitarian movement, or whatever the preferred phrase) is to change the culture. Celebrating procreation--our procreation--needs to be part of that change.

In his AmRen conference remarks last year and during his speech this year, Jared Taylor expressed regret for not having had more children, noting specifically that the reason for it is that he assumed he wouldn't like fatherhood and nobody ever told him how wonderful it would be--he ended up discovering it later in life.

I understand this rubs a lot of people the wrong way. Hell, it probably rubs most people the wrong way since most white people are below replacement!

It's an issue that gets me fired up not only because it's literally of existential importance but also because I held off, Idiocracy-style, through my twenties. I've never liked caring for pets. What were the chances I'd enjoy parenthood? With the benefit of hindsight, 100% as it turns out. I've now experienced a range of emotions I could not have experienced without having become a father. Unconditional love is reserved for our children, no one else.

Don't read this blog for emotional safeguarding, please. There is no point in fighting for an abstract idea of our posterity if we don't create any actual posterity to fight for.

We talk about the need for self-improvement. To get off the couch and into the gym. To stop drinking from the pop culture sewer and start distilling a salubrious culture of our own. To stop being supine and start standing up for ourselves. The shame we feel when we pass on the potential to grow the tribe is the same sort of shame we come up short on these other endeavors. Pressure to power. Stress to strength. Remember, others have done more with less.

This isn't a blanket call for MOAR WHITE BABIES (though that'd be fine with me). I know my audience. All human behavioral traits are heritable. The personality characteristics that make you a race realist grateful for your ancestors and guided by a concern for your descendents are personality characteristics your children will tend to share. If we don't do it (heh), we'll be relying on the Mennonites and the Mormons to win the future for us.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Seeing siblings become enthusiastic spore colonies of late US poz doesn't fill me with certainty that kids wouldn't find being on the side of power and moral certainty rather than a coy dissident a compelling option.

Annatar II said...

I would just point out that you can't use preliminary birth data as not all births are identified by race, for example in 2016 preliminary data, births by race only add up to 3.821m, while total births are 3.941m, the final births by race tend to adjusted later and tend to be in line with the original figure. Hence, the total % of White births once all births by race are identified is likely to be 2.054m/3.821m which gets you 53.8%.

The share of White births as a % of all births has been flat since since 2006 at around 53-54% due to the collapse in the Hispanic birthrate.

For looking at births by race and state I would recommend this site as it contains data going back 20 years by race.
https://www.marchofdimes.org/peristats/ViewSubtopic.aspx?reg=01&top=2&stop=10&lev=1&slev=4&obj=3

Regarding Alabama, it is one of the few states where the share of white births is growing over time, in the 2006-08 period, 59.7% of all births were white, by 2013-15, that figure was up slightly to 60.3%.

Audacious Epigone said...

Anon,

Nothing is certain other than that, to audaciously quote the great Jared Taylor, if we do nothing then we will lose everything.

Annatar II,

Yeah, there's a marginal difference but it doesn't seem to amount to much. Probably should do a little digging and use final numbers for sake of accuracy, though. Just looked at 2015, for example, and the n-H white birth % is the same to the first decimal with preliminary and final (both are 53.5%).

Passer by said...

"White" quite probably includes jews, turks, arabs and some other muslims ..

Audacious Epigone said...

Passer by,

MENA constitutes 1% of the population and some identify as "other" rather than white. And those from the Iberian peninsula, like, say, Fuentes, get counted as Hispanic so it's probably a wash.

At 2% of the population, the vast majority of which considers itself racially white, is another question.

lineman said...

Not only having kids but having the grow up around other kids with the same values and morals is a huge help...So if you don't have that where you are at then you seriously need to consider relocating...Do it for your kids sake...