I agree with youThat is fine with me, it isn't realistic to try and get back to 95% white European descent.
But that still doesn't answer the question about who this countries government is supposed to be protecting. I don't conflate the economies numbers with the people.
The economy has done fine for some people but not for those in flyover (mostly white and legacy Americans), hence Trump.
Sorry for the no reply, norovirus hit me Friday night, finally feeling better.
So of the flyover isn't coming back unless there is something drastic changed at the federal level. I'm not talking the old factory towns, but small towns in agricultural areas. Farm programs starting in the 1960s started that trend, farm lending went from small local banks to government backed lending, push was made for farmers to go from livestock and crops to just row crops or large scale confinements. Diversity was gone from ag. Used to be much of the corn from farms stayed on the farms as feed and what little surplus there was was sold to the feed mill or local elevator. Yes, yields did improve a lot in the 1960s but government meddled and now farmers were selling grain and buying their grain back as feed so they can take advantage of the commodity/insurance/subisidy programs.
What does this mean, well the small town banks started closing up because the control of the money switched, this lead to less of a reason for folks to come to town. Also feed mills shut down, slaughter houses closed or got bought up by bigger outfits, giant grain elevatators began to appear, livestock auction houses disappeared because the packing industry went to contract buying, etc.
So small towns got smaller, hardware stores closed, restaurants closed, etc.
in the Midwest 80's ag crisis happened, it was like 2007 for many Midwestern states. Small towns lost their small equipment manufacturing base due to the buyers having not money or equipment was too small for the bigger producers who weathered the crisis.
Also the packing house unions were busted about that time, so wages went from a decent living to crap. Have you noticed a big change in price for meat from the 1980's to now? Also the big packing houses moved from urban areas to more rural areas where they can be closer to the livestock producers but also could pay a lot less because there were a lot of out of work people in the rural areas.