“What has happened since then has been a sort of rupture in the laws of supply and demand…In 2000, New York City’s population was 8,008,278. In 2023, the Census Bureau estimated that it was 8,258,035. In a safe and prosperous quarter century, the most important city in the…
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) March 3, 2025
I read this earlier this morning and thought this was interesting and worth sharing.
The following excerpt comes from Jon Grinspan’s book The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought To Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915
“Words like cure and settled capture the anticipation of many in the victorious North in 1865, convinced that their nation stood on the threshold of a new era. The war was not yet over, and no one knew how to reconstruct the nation, but it was clear that American democracy was about to change. It was time, Will Kelly told an African American social club in Philadelphia, to “perpetuate a pure democracy, with powers subject only to the revision of the people.”
What Kelley called “pure democracy,” the belligerent New York congressman Roscoe Conkling called a “moral earthquake.” Things were about to get a lot less “settled.” It was time to shake loose the old bonds that had restrained politics for far too long, to ensure that “the will of the majority must be the only king; the ballot-box must be the only throne.” …
It was easy for northern Republicans to boast about majorities in 1865. They had the numbers. In the defeated Confederacy, many grumbled that they would never vote again, and in the North conservative Democrats accused the Republican Party of conspiring “to carry out its spite / to elevate the black man and trample on the white.” But the Republican Party held unprecedented sway, controlled over 70 percent of the seats in Congress in 1865, soon to rise to 80 percent. The next census would find that three-quarters of Americans lived outside the former Confederacy, with more people in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio than in all the formerly seceded states combined. If the four million newly freed African Americans were able to win political rights, they would further strengthen this ruling alliance.”
King Numbers.
“Pure democracy.”
A “moral earthquake.”
Ultimately, it was all about the sectional power struggle within the Union. 3 out of 4 Americans lived outside the former Confederacy in 1870. Voting rights were given to blacks during Reconstruction because the end of slavery had brought about the end of the 3/5th clause. Northern Republicans wanted to dominate the country and they had the numbers to do it. They wanted to consolidate the power shift to the North. Destroying slavery also eliminated the economic basis of Southern wealth.
Fastforward to the present day.
Demographically, America has been turned upside down. 57 million Americans live in the Northeast. 68 million live in the Midwest. 130 million live in the South. The 2030 Census is going to shift the electoral equivalent of Wisconsin to Red States led by Florida and Texas. In 1870, more Americans lived in New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio than in all of the states of the former Confederacy, which when you think about it explains the entire arc of American politics over the following century. Florida was still a swamp when the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was pushed down our throats. Power follows population.
As Ezra Klein notes in the tweet above, New York City has barely grown over the past 25 years. Northern liberals have been coasting on the fumes of previous generations. They believe the “moral arc of history” always bends toward them when in reality they have been in long term relative decline at home and abroad. New York isn’t anywhere close to as important today as it was in the 1930s and 1940s. The Carnegies, Morgans and Rockefellers built the North into the colossus that it used to be. Without them and that type of culture and nothing but Kyle Kulinskis, it is sinking.
We lost the War Between the States because our side also lacked industry and this type of dynamic, entrepreneurial culture. We believed our superpower was cotton, free trade, blacks and a lack of cities. It was cheaper to rely on Midwestern farms and Eastern shipping. The war shattered those illusions.
Note: The Confederacy is why I am a protectionist. Visionaries like James D.B. DeBow disagreed with the free trade orthodoxy that ultimately doomed us.
1/4 million is scarce growth??
Who the hell wants to live in that 3rd world urinal anyway?
‘Who the hell wants to live in that 3rd world urinal anyway?’
Most libtards, so long as it’s you and me suffering and not them.
I live here, have lived here most of my life, and without question it’s a daily battlefield of the heart and mind. But the advantage is that enduring a garbage environment like this will make you one hell of a soldier psychologically (assuming you are not a retarded shtlib to begin with that celebrates this insanity). Endless Diversity and State-enforced Jewish Communism have made me a committed White Christian Nationalist. No BS but I walk that walk.
I wish more young Whites were the same. It’s a difficult time to live through.
It’s a growth rate of 3.1% compared to America as a whole which grew 20.9% during that same time period. That counts immigrants, the population of American born might have actually declined. The crime and NIMBYism and driving people away.
“130 million now live in the South”
Regardless of politics, that never would have happened without the invention of air conditioning. Thank Willis Carrier!
There is so much charm owning negros. The invention of the tractor shattered those illusions.
The South had to adhere to free trade because it was based on exporting staple crops, mainly to the British empire. They didn’t have to worry about labor costs because with slavery labor was free. Black chattle slavery would make protectionist labor sentiments look absurd. Free trade thus allowed the South to focus on profit maximization. Britain also focused on free trade because its imperial dominion and large pool of cheap labor enabled it. The South in a way was still a British colony.
Southern politics also drove the Confederacy towards free trade with its obsession over states rights and suspicion of centralized power, which was one of the main reasons why it lost the war. Protectionism presupposes a strong central government.
Protectionism was only possible in the South if it abandoned slavery wholesale. That was unthinkable for at least a few reasons.
Protectionism was only possible in the South if it abandoned slavery wholesale. That was unthinkable for at least a few reasons …the art of the understatement.
“The south *HAD* to adhere to free trade…”
It was beneficial/pragmatic *and* a sincere belief.
“…because with slavery, labor was free…”
I can’t think of a more absurd comment about economics in general, but especially about the South. Free? Really? Do you get to freely drive your car around? It’s true that you don’t have to give your car money to drive it, but it’s far from a free ride. Slavery was incredibly expensive.
“…chattel slavery makes protectionism look absurd…”
As does simply examining the logic of “protectionism”…
“…allowed the south to focus on profit maximization”
The free market is effective at economic homeostasis, where prices and profits are organically related to their real-world valuations.
“…south lost the war because of an obsession with states rights and suspicion of centralized power” …
Let’s not forget that their “obsession” was an obsession with truth and fair-play, and that their suspicions of centralized power turned out to have been entirely apt. Government-schooled moderns, however, never having known what it feels like to be free, have no understanding of what we’ve lost.
“Protectionism was only possible in the South if…”
Who told you slavery has been abandoned? Please explain that to me because I think my grandfather was right: the War didn’t end slavery, it just grew the size of the plantation.
“The 2030 Census is going to shift the electoral equivalent of Wisconsin to Red States led by Florida and Texas.”
By 2030, maybe 2035 if we’re lucky, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida will not be Red States. Those states have a very unfavorable combination of lots of elderly White Boomers and lots of Hispanic children.
Der Fuhrer called democracy (western) the Petri dish of Marxism.
It amounts to an annual growth rate of 1/10th of 1%.
Hence the low growth rate.
https://rmx.news/article/germany-priest-calls-altar-boy-a-nazi-and-fires-him-after-he-takes-photo-with-afd-politician-maximilian-krah/
https://rumble.com/v6rpdwd-hn10-12-standing-for-christ-on-good-friday.htm
After kosher Zio-mouthpiece “Kikebart’s” editor-in-chief Delingpole was fired for streaming with “white nationalist” Millenial Woes and “spreading conspiracy theories”, he is now free to interview Ft. Mawdsley or Bp. Williamson (shortly before his death) without suffocating Jewish censorship, and even to discuss the Jews “in a religious context”. https://odysee.com/@JamesDelingpoleChannel:0/2025-03-06%E2%80%94Psalm-114-5:c
Disingenuous to say the War “shattered the illusion of free trade…”
The entire “anaconda plan” specifically attacked free-trade by military fiat…
And unlike Anonymous (above), I’m not as cynical about the South’s free-market ideals. Just read Jefferson Davis’ first inaugural address. These God-given principles were not idly accepted by government-schooled pragmatists. They were deeply held principles of identity in the South.
“Georgian Gonzo Journo”: “It’s
not that complex, it’s the Jews.”
https://rumble.com/v6ric43-jim-fetzer-russ-winter-joachim-jagopian-revolution-radio-ruin-reputation-ov.html?start=610
If you had said it’s the Illumina-
ti, Fetzer wouldn’t have had a re-
vealing laugh and would have al-
lowed you to stay until the end.
“Maverick Artist” Vic (who in some ways re-
sembles Giuseppe Vafanculo aka the ‘G-Man’)
and retired CA state teacher Carl have entered
into an entertaining intellectual brilliance con-
test that takes place on a covert level, so to say.
The aim of the game is to expose each other as
idiots behind all kinds of hypocritical flattery.
Carl wants to prove how limited Vic’s intellectu-
al horizon is to claim that “the Jews” are the pro-
blem, while Vic wants to prove how uninformed
and naive Carl is to dismiss a “Jewish problem”.
https://rumble.com/v6bi8rg-the-art-of-being-a-provocateur-in-a-world-full-of-cowards-buckminster-fulle.html
https://rumble.com/v6ivlpp-carl-herman-makes-victor-hugo-apologize-to-brian-davidson-jim-fetzer-joachi.html
https://carlbherman.blogspot.com/
According to alleged DNA studies at least,
the Ashkenazi, i.e. the variety that domina-
tes both Israel and the West (and here espe-
cially America), are the least “Jewish” one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_is_a_Jew%3F
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VizsZFQWQ9w
Jewtuber Usefulidiot, pardon, I meant UsefulCharts
of course, also wants to finally do away with the com-
pletely nonsensical, unjustified, unfounded and super-
stitious prejudices against the Jews. To be “dead sure”
what the truth is, he has consulted two Jewish “experts”.
Lidl is an expansionist, one could say consumer-imperialist, German supermarket chain that scores by aggressive price dumping for acceptable quality. Like ALDI, the fastest growing discount grocer overseas, Lidl has entered the American market. However, as in the UK, the free movement of goods and the unlimited import of potential state-sponsored welfare customers seem to clash disharmoniously due to culturally different habits.
In today’s “Germoney”, it is vey unlikely to be known who Bernard Heinrich Kroger (correct would be Bernhard Kröger) was, or Fritz Grubmeyer aka Fred G. Meyer. https://pdfhost.io/v/Lj5NjwcPPp_My-Te-Fine-Merchant
Quote: “Fred Meyer never explained the reason for the name change, but it is likely that he felt the sting of anti-German sentiment. But it created another effect that sometimes bothered Meyer. Many people believed that he was Jewish.”
“Doug Baker, an Oregon Journal columnist, says that after a 1960 interview with Meyer, a company spokesman called Baker and said, ‘Mr. Meyer would like to ask you a favor. He would like to make it clear that he is not of the Jewish faith.'”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SSFQBtIM-A
But even in Jewrica, they now do their best to keep the customer at bay. It doesn’t take clairvoyance to guess what “ethnic-religious background” unleashed “Clown Zak” on the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G_65UG7ujI
Kroger Judentube “channel banner”
https://i.ibb.co/Wvjq9th2/kroger.jpg
Walmart wanted to conquer Krautland
by the most expensive smile in history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59AMOwlf6XQ
Not Freddy Krueger, but Murder Kroger.
Incidentally, the narrator is also a corpse,
as it’s the AI voice of David Attenborogh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnnn8hyH0S0
Play https://voca.ro/172uTlNzBPyQ
https://i.ibb.co/WN9GsLLh/Sir-David.jpg
A limitless source of fun opens up here.
https://arting.ai/sir-david-attenborough
American DHL is now Geman Post.
Fil Gelabert, who looks like Trudeau
with acne, explains the background.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpMrDxAoQ4w
Gelabert means babbled in German.
Flattering as Johnny Depp’s surna-
me, which means idiot in German.
German T-Mobile is now second
largest telephone provider in US.
The Germans will only be able to defend their first place for a few more years, because blacks and Mexicans have been catching up massively since the mid-60s. Who might be behind this?
Just a hint: they are also represented in the midfield of the race, but only appeared in 1892, but were able to assert themselves not because of their numbers, but because of their position of power.
“He said in a documentary interview that
he had to wear a yellow band with the let-
ter ‘A’ for the German word for ‘ass-fucker’.”
https://makinggayhistory.org/podcast/nazi-era-overview-part-i/
Which is, indeed, an outrageous reduction of all
the delicate details that are so imminently impor-
tant for the gay lifestyle. After all, orgasms are of-
ten also triggered orally or manually, for example.
https://archive.ph/yqlTe
“Nazi war against homosexuals” means, con-
versely, “a Jewish war against heterosexuals”.
Jewrule and queerification are directly related, be-
cause it is always about the same main goal: elimi-
nating the white race in its reproductive capacity.
https://makinggayhistory.org/season-fourteen/
Imagine: the racist Aryan Nazi beasts had such
a gigantic appetite for Jew buttholes that they
couldn’t wait to keep them as homosex slaves.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25785648.2024.2363682#d1e847
“The first edition of the book, published in 1992
was a Stonewall Book Award winner in 1992 and
was described by acclaimed oral historian (((Studs
Terkel))) as ‘one of the definitive works on gay life’.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_Gay_History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studs_Terkel
On the other hand, it remains just as important
to make it impossible for the hated Amalekites
to rid themselves of the Third World invasion
plague engineered by the Jews by means of mo-
ral blackmail and by feeding the guilt complex:
“When my father was awarded the Nobel Prize
in physics in October of 1978, both the local Mu-
nich newspaper and the national German news-
paper ran articles celebrating my father as a lau-
reate born in Munich. What contributions to our
country are we losing with our deportations?”
In other words: Do you seriously want to deport tens of
millions of potential colored Nobel Prize winners to their
home countries where they actually belong? There you go!
https://archive.ph/ebiDB