US society today without the changes in post 1965 immigration

Taken from pew research:

Without any post-1965 immigration, the nation’s racial and ethnic composition would be very different today: 75% white, 14% black, 8% Hispanic and 1% Asian.

How would a US society with those demographics be different to the one today?

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Chart of today's demographics and projections:

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That process has already happened in some parts of Canada, with Asian immigrants out-numbering whites.
The first human immigrants arrived about 20,000 years ago, but now Cree, Dene, Sioux, Salish, Haida, etc. have been reduced to a tiny percentage.
After 1500, millions of white Europeans arrived and displaced the original inhabitants.
After Confederation (1867) thousands of Chinese coolies were hired to build a Trans-Canada railway. But laws severely restricted immigration from Asia.
Immigrant of non-whites from Asia and Africa remained tiny until the British Empire shrank after WW2.
Now I sometimes am the only visible white man wandering through some suburbs of Vancouver.
 
The US, with those demographics, would be a lot more conservative politically speaking given the voting habits of Whites. Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Nevada, and Colorado would be solid Republican states for example. California would be swing, even.
 
The Republicans wouldn't be as paranoid and would be a little more rational.The Democrats would be a little more twords the center.
 
The US, with those demographics, would be a lot more conservative politically speaking given the voting habits of Whites. Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Nevada, and Colorado would be solid Republican states for example. California would be swing, even.

Could it be argued that maybe whites have become more conservative in reaction to the changing demographics? There are several European countries currently with similar-ish demographics to the proposed hypothetical which are more liberal than the US.
 
Could it be argued that maybe whites have become more conservative in reaction to the changing demographics? There are several European countries currently with similar-ish demographics to the proposed hypothetical which are more liberal than the US.

You beat me to the same thought. Without the idea of social programs going to "others", you might find whites more willing to be supportive, thinking that they will be the beneficiaries. The great social welfare improvements of the twentieth century in the United States occurred during the New Deal, New Frontier and Great Society, all of which fell during the 20s-60s pause in immigration, as did the great progress in the civil rights movement postwar. You could argue that with civil rights, a white majority felt more secure in its majority such that it was willing to confront a particularly ugly aspect of its society. Once immigration opened up again, a period which coincided with the decline of the industrial economy, the white majority began to feel economically and culturally besieged, which gave rise to a white backlash.

One thing is for sure: a restriction on immigration from 1965 through 1985 would have probably prevented a lot of the economic blame casting that was directed at immigrants and minorities.

The downside, of course, is that US GDP today would almost certainly be lower. The literature is pretty consistently clear that there are huge economic benefits to immigration. This is not to say that those benefits are necessarily fairly distributed, a factor which can feed a backlash. The 2016 election should provide some evidence for that: high immigration + high inequality = resentment of minorities and immigrants and elites.

Sort of off-topic and tangential, but I've always wondered why immigration opponents haven't called for a pause in immigration rather than permanent restriction. A pause of ten to twenty years for assimilation and social adjustment sounds a heck of a lot better and less xenophobic than stirring up resentment of all immigrants.
 
Could it be argued that maybe whites have become more conservative in reaction to the changing demographics? There are several European countries currently with similar-ish demographics to the proposed hypothetical which are more liberal than the US.

I don't really see any evidence for such. The Sixth Party system, which saw the dominance of Conservatism and has seen the increasing identification of Whites with the GOP, started before the long term effects of the Immigration Act could be felt. Take, for instance, what Nixon would go on to do just three years after the PoD presented in the OP. Further, the racial thing doesn't pan out when one looks further back. As early as the 1920s you were starting to see the GOP become really competitive in the Upper South before the Depression knocked them back out again. By the late 1940s and 1950s, the Upper South was again competitive and then in the 1960s it got solidified while the Deep South caught up with the trend.

So to get to the point, no, I don't think there is any evidence to suggest this.
 
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I'd imagine that American society would be more socially conservative but less adverse to government interventionism. I also figure a large number of the Hispanic population would be more assimilated than they already are - likely seen in TTL 2016 as Italians were in the early 20th century.
 
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