Writes Brian Dunaway:

Of course, the premise of these warnings is that, through patient assimilation, America would stay American. That is the furthest thing from the minds of the governing and intellectual “elites” of today, who clamor for The Death of the West.

Two of the five presidents studied in this article contributed to the political environment that led to the critical immigration pause, ca. 1920 – 1960, discussed at length by Pat Buchanan in A Republic, Not an Empire. Theodore Roosevelt dreaded a geographical space that would become a “polyglot boarding house.” As the article states, Calvin Coolidge put the words into action: “In the early 1920s, President Calvin Coolidge (R) drastically reduced annual legal immigration levels to the United States, stabilizing the nation’s population following decades of record-high immigration.”

I’ve seen much in my short lifetime regarding immigration and immigrant attitudes. As recently as the early 90’s, I had two close colleagues, both with whom I had worked for many years. One was of Vietnamese heritage, the other Filipino (of course, both nations subject to American imperial ambitions). Both wanted so much to be considered to be thought of as “American.” At some point in the course of knowing them, I had asked each of them if they were at all conversant in the language of their immediate ancestors. Both said “no,” and I never thought about it again. That is until, years apart, I heard them, after business hours, speaking fluently to members of their families in their native languages. I understood. I was moved to tears.

Oh, how times have changed, utterly. “Polyglot boarding house” doesn’t begin to describe it. Around twenty years ago my parents were visiting a new grocery store in Fort Bend County, Texas, not knowing it was a Vietnamese grocery store. Of course, being open and curious, they would have explored the store anyway. They asked a friendly question of the proprietor, and he merely sneered at them. They were not welcome.

This is happening all over the West.

See here.