(Note: The title of this post is a reference to the
late-1940s’ and early 1950s’ “Who Lost China?”)
This essay is a foray into how California’s “Third World-ization” — as the Wall Street Journal and the National Review and many others have put it — came to pass. That is is to say, the “loss” of California.
The state is no longer a place of opportunity for average, core Americans, and has turned from a Midwest-on-the-Pacific to a Brazil-on-the-Pacific.
The question stands to be asked and answered are demanded: Who lost California? When, and why, and how. Who might have saved California?
(Adapted and expanded from a discussion at Steve Sailer’s blog.)
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Here is California’s racial situation, graphed over time:
(‘White’ is White non-Hispanic; all data from US Census for all years for which White non-Hispanic data is available; see sources and numbers in text format below; Nonwhites refers to the aggregate of all Hispanics, Blacks, Asians, and others who are not classified as “White Non-Hispanic.”)
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The decline of California; from a Midwest-on-the-Pacific to a Brazil-on-the-Pacific
California today is a dysfunctional, one-party, left-wing state with a shrinking White-Christian minority, a bankrupt treasury, a rising homeless population, electricity problems, a large-and-continuing-to-expand recent-foreign-origin majority, endless traffic, recently-legalized marijuana and other decadent political programs.
There are strong parallels here with a Third World society. California does have tens of millions of Third Worlders, and like much of the Third World, Latin America in particular, it also has a racial overclass — in California’s case, largely White-Christian and Jewish — separated from the vast Third World majority (who are, in this case, of immigrant origin); there is also a parallel Asian immigrant technocratic class, with the latter a possible midcentury replacement overclass, or at least bound to be co-administrators of Third World California.
This California is increasingly akin to a dead weight on the US, certainly evidently so in politics:
Have you seen California recently? They gave us President Nixon and President Reagan. Good luck with that. Before the first vote is cast on election day, Democrats already have [California’s electoral votes], because of immigration. — Ann Coulter
I notice that “Third World California,” as a concept, has entered centrist discourse, and this even before the October and November 2019 power blackouts which proved such a nice metaphor for what many feel, in general terms, about the state. The headline of a lead National Review article on California in mid 2019 was “America’s First Third-World State”:
“America’s First Third-World Sate”: California
The characterization of a California sinking into Third World conditions, or more precisely “Brazilianized” conditions, was present ten, twenty, and thirty years ago, it was largely on the margins. It is now out in the open and hard to ignore.
Brazilianization, as defined by Michael Lind, is:
high-tech feudal anarchy, featuring an archipelago of privileged whites in an ocean of white, black and brown poverty.
Wealthy, white enclaves in California remain, and will continue to do well for the foreseeable future. The broad-based, middle-class society of those who built the state in the 19th and 20th centuries — White-Christian California; WASP California; what can be called “classic-America California” — is now, while not gone, is certainly marginal, having been squeezed out both culturally and physically, in a long-running process of Third Worldization. California has been Brazilianized.
The people would certainly have voted against Third Worldization, if they had ever been given the chance. The political leadership that sympathized with the majority, such as it was, proved unable or unwilling to stop it.
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“Who Lost California?” — Questions
Introductory Q. What led to California’s inability to maintain demographic stability?
Introductory A. There are multiple causes, all tied up with national-level cultural and political changes that emerge in the third quarter of the 20th century across the West, which can be grouped into two main categories: Continue reading →
The starting eleven at Poland’s first World Cup 2018 game (vs. Senegal)
(Above) Iceland’s starting eleven for a recent international game.
Sweden’s starting eleven for a recent international game; Sweden’s full-23 pic for World Cup 2018 (final squad announced in mid-May 2018) is not available.
(Note: This is not the final squad picture, but is a then-current national team as of late 2017; the finalized World Cup squad in early June, 2018 contains several more non-White players, on whom 
