Ben Wattenberg Optimistic About American Demographics—But Are They, In Fact, American?
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Veteran immigration enthusiast Ben Wattenberg is being optimistic about America's population in the Wall Street Journal—America's 21st-Century Population Edge | Birth rates are dropping all over the world, often below replacement rates. But not in the U.S. May 23, 2012.

He writes 









Yes, we've heard about the demographic death spiral, and how Russia is running out of babies, and it would be nice to think that Americans are doing a better job of reproducing themselves, but the people who are reproducing themselves best in the United States are not necessarily American. That's why there were more non-white than white babies born in the last Census Report, and why America is expected to be a white minority nation by 2050.

And please don't tell me about Einstein—immigrants today aren't Einstein.

In The Bell Curve  1994, Herrnstein and Murray wrote 

The rules that currently govern immigration provide the other major source of dysgenic pressure. It appears that the mean I.Q. of immigrants in the 1980s works out to about 95. . The low I.Q. may not be a problem; in the past, immigrants have sometimes shown large increases on such measures. But other evidence indicates that the self-selection process that used to attract the classic American immigrant—brave, hard working, imaginative, self-starting, and often high I.Q.—has been changing, and with it the nature of some of the immigrant population. [p341, quoted at some length here]

Of course, this is something you're not supposed to notice. Peter Brimelow wrote in 2000 that 


So it has.

All the immigrants mentioned in Wattenberg's laundry list are white, except possibly Albert Pujols, the Dominican first baseman, who's slightly tan. (Although this may be because he's outdoors a lot.)

The United States is not going to outperform China with the aid of Mexican peasants or African refugees.

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