For its part, the provincial Right, having already been sucker-punched by globalization, responded to the news with what columnist Charles Blow called "White extinction anxiety." Alba implies that the two sides fed off each other: hearing words like "Extinction" and sensing the schadenfreude from the other side, this portion of the white Right grew more brazenly resentful, which, in turn, lent more credence to the Left's charges of right-wing racism.
"Just as with the one-drop rule" that had once applied to blacks, Alba observes acidly, "The minority side was to take precedence over the white side." It's worth noting, though Alba does not, that college-admissions offices also appear to use the one-drop rule when it advances their diversity goals.
Up until the mid-nineteenth century, the Census designers didn't think very hard about race; they defined Americans as either free people, which generally meant "White," or slaves, synonymous with "Black." It was only in 1860 that officials added a separate category-for American Indians.
About 40 percent of all recent intermarriages and mixed births involve a Hispanic of any race and a non-Hispanic white; mixed-race children are likely to marry whites, further diluting their Latino "Blood." In large measure due to intermarriage, such "Ethnic attrition" has been common among Hispanics over generations, particularly among educated Mexicans.
The children of American Indian and white parents are far more likely to identify as white than as Indian.
Groups are "De-categorizing" themselves or, as in the case of "White Latina" Anya Taylor-Joy, blurring familiar boundaries.
In a rational world, his book could help clear our toxic air of the promiscuous use of terms like "White supremacy" and "People of color." I'm not counting on it, though.
https://www.city-journal.org/richard-alba-on-demographic-change
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