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Explain It to Me

The great white panic

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Jane Coaston joins Dara, Ezra, and Matt to talk about the racial panic tearing America apart and also salt. References and further reading: Ezra's piece on the changing demographics in America Identity Crisis book mentioned by Ezra Salt white paper  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Mother, it's not even August yet!

0:16.5

Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Fox Media Podcast Network.

0:20.0

I'm Matthew Glacias, we've got an action

0:22.5

to unpack our guest today with Darlin, Ezra Klein and Jane Kosen, and we are here to talk about

0:29.8

what are we talking about as we're...

0:31.0

White threat in a browning America.

0:33.7

So I've been working on this piece for a while, and we're going to put in show notes.

0:36.6

It's a long piece, so I don't want to take everybody's time up by summarizing the whole thing,

0:41.2

but it's basically an argument about why things are the way they are right now.

0:46.7

Why we're having the fights we're having, why we had Barack Obama followed by Donald Trump,

0:51.4

why we're having this obsessive focus on political correctness wars on campus,

0:56.3

on and on and on on the line.

0:58.0

And the pieces three parts, which I'll just go through very, very fast and then open this up.

1:02.3

The first is it, America really is changing.

1:05.3

We are at a pretty profound set of demographic tipping points.

1:08.4

In 2013, that was the first year according to Census Bureau,

1:11.5

that a majority of infants under one were non-white.

1:15.0

We are now at a point according to a recent Census Bureau related report

1:20.2

that there are more states where white people dying are outnumbering white people being born.

1:27.0

In 2030, according to the Census Bureau, immigration will overtake Native

1:30.7

bros as the main driver of population growth in America.

1:33.8

We are coming up on a record number of foreign-born residents,

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