Beyond the Melting Pot

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

With Jonah off on a clandestine mission to Turkey, Chris Stirewalt takes his place in the Remnant captain’s chair for a wonktastic dive into American demography. His guest is Dr. Richard Alba, a sociologist and the author of The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream, which explores America’s changing racial makeup and the increasing prevalence of Americans born from mixed families. Their discussion touches on a number of pressing questions. Can we rely on Census data? What does assimilation mean in America today? And how can we create more opportunities for young Americans to move into?

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0:00.0	You know hey sizzling
0:13.9	Oh wait a sec, gentlemen
0:18.3	Could I please have your attention?
0:25.5	And greetings, dear listeners, you lovely people.
0:30.8	I am sorry to tell you that you are without Joan of all bird.
0:34.8	I am sorry to say, but you are with me.
0:37.0	His audio doppelganger, Chris Diawalt, and I am so pleased to be with you today.
0:43.8	And because Jonah is on vacation, if Jonah were off doing some hardship duty or doing something
0:50.8	difficult or strenuous, I would feel obliged to do something
0:55.4	that he might do.
0:57.2	And it's not to say that he wouldn't do this subject.
1:00.9	But it is to say this is exactly what I want to talk about.
1:03.6	And since I'm filling in for a friend who's on vacation, I feel that I am empowered
1:08.1	to talk about whatever I want to talk about in the whole world.
1:11.9	And what I want to talk about today and what I want to talk about this week, and I wrote
1:16.5	about it for my column for the dispatch on Monday, in which I used Vietnamese
1:24.7	Cajun crawfish cookery of the Gulf Coast of Texas as a metaphor for what is happening
1:31.9	culturally, demographically, and politically in America as we make up new ways to be.
1:38.8	And I thought, well, who could I talk to about a topic like this?
1:42.7	And I said, well, the very best person would be Richard Alba.
1:45.4	If you could get Richard Alba, this would be the very best person that you could talk
1:48.4	about something like this with.
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