Eds.: As usual, Pat Buchanan puts his finger on the critical problem. Basing his comments on a report from the National Policy Institute, Buchanan notes that whites are ceding territory to other groups and failing to replace themselves.

Low fertility by itself would not be a disaster if whites continued to control their ancestral homelands and other territories they have dominated since their expansion out of Europe.

But quite clearly white control of their traditional homelands is in dire jeopardy. White societies have been defenseless against this onslaught, largely as a result of the  triumph in the West of the political and cultural left. At the present time throughout the West, voices advocating an  end to immigration into Western countries and programs of repatriation of non-white immigrants are silenced with all the power that the forces of political correctness can muster.

Having a sense of white identity and white  interests has been relegated to the political fringe even though having an ethnic identity and a sense of ethnic interests is absolutely normal for all other peoples.

There is simply no public debate about these issues even though polls indicate that most white people are deeply anxious about the changes that are being foisted on them by political and  cultural elites. As Buchanan points out,  most Americans want to protect their culture and restrict immigration. But all of the presidential candidates [and, one might add, elites in the media and academic world] want to make millions of illegal aliens into U.S. citizens. Ending legal immigration isn't even on the table.

According to Buchanan, these trends are now irreversible: "Western Europe’s populations are being sustained by immigrants from the Maghreb and Middle East, Asia and Africa — and the baby boom among these black and brown peoples is lifting and changing the face of the Old Continent forever."

We're not as pessimistic. The same people who dominated and shaped the world  for  the last 500 years still  have the energy and creativity to shape the  future in a way that would secure their place among the peoples of the world. They are a sleeping giant that needs only to throw off the yoke of the political and cultural elites who have betrayed their interests over the last 50 years. Never say "forever".

Excerpts: An Augusta, Ga., group, The National Policy Institute, has meshed the figures on fertility rates with the continents and races on Planet Earth — to visualize what the world will look like in 2060.

In 1950, whites were 28 percent of world population and Africans 9 percent, a ratio of three-to-one. In 2060, the ratio will remain the same. But the colors will be reversed. People of African ancestry will be 25 percent of the world’s population. People of European descent will have fallen to 9.8 percent.

More arresting is that the white population is shrinking not only in relative but in real terms. Two hundred million white people, one in every six on earth — a number equal to the entire population of France, Britain, Holland and Germany — will vanish by 2060.

The Caucasian race is going the way of the Mohicans. ...

Fleshing out the NPI picture is the U.N. population survey of mid-2007 that points to the 21st century disappearance of Western Man.

By 2050, a fourth of all the people of Eastern Europe will have vanished. Ukraine will lose one-third of its population. Russia, 150 million at the breakup of the Soviet Union, 142 million today, will be down to 108 million. Such losses dwarf what Hitler and Stalin together did to these countries. ...

Western Europe’s populations are being sustained by immigrants from the Maghreb and Middle East, Asia and Africa — and the baby boom among these black and brown peoples is lifting and changing the face of the Old Continent forever. Islam is returning to Iberia, Italy and the Balkans. The Third World is coming to colonize the mother countries.

And America? According to the Pew Research Center, the Hispanic population of the United States will triple to 127 million by 2050, as Mexico’s population grows to 130 million. An erasure of the U.S. border, or merger of the two countries, or the linguistic, cultural and social annexation of the American Southwest by Mexico appears fated.

Yet, last October, in another Pew poll of 45,000 people in 47 countries, a majority in 46 expressed fear of a loss of their traditional culture.

Sixty-two percent of Americans told Pew we should do more to protect our way of life. Three-fourths of Americans wanted more restrictions on immigration. Yet all three presidential candidates voted amnesty for the 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens.

Hopefully, the peoples of Asia, Africa and the Middle East, who are about to inherit the earth as we pass away, will treat us better than our ancestors treated them in the five centuries that Western Man ruled the world.

Otherwise, we all go out with a bang. [article]