I’ve seen this story promoted on the LATimes.com for a few days but until now I’ve avoided reading it because I’m assuming that the fall of San Bernadino is largely a matter of changed racial demographics.
For instance, there’s nothing wrong with schools in the United States. By race, Americans do better than their fellow racial groups around the world. America’s lower test scores and higher drop-out rate are simply a function of America’s changed racial demographics.
In his book Bad Students, Not Bad Schools, Robert Weissberg writes: “America’s educational woes just reflect our current demographic mix of students.”
Without having read the Los Angeles Times article, but simply by looking at this Wikipedia graph, I am going to assume that when San Bernadino was 97.8% white in 1940, it was a pleasant city, but now that it is 60% Latino, 15% black and only 19% non-hispanic white, it is hell aka a lot like Mexico, Central America and most of South America aka it reflects its changed racial demographics.
I begin the Times article with the subhead:
San Bernardino, once a sturdy, middle class “All-America City,” is now bankrupt, the poorest city of its size in California, and a symbol of the nation’s worst urban woes.
Well, yeah, that’s just what I would expect from its change in racial demographics.
From the Times:
Four decades ago, this motel boasted a cheery coffee shop, a heated pool, valet parking and palm trees that swayed in the hard wind coming over the Cajon Pass.
Now it’s a way station for broken people in a broken city.
As other California cities lift themselves out of the recession, San Bernardino, once a blue-collar town with a solid middle class, has become the poorest city of its size in the state and a distillation of America’s urban woes.
* Monterey Park is also predominantly Nonwhite just like San Bernardino, the difference is Monterey Park’s Nonwhites are of a higher IQ stock than San Bernardino’s Nonwhites. Monterey Park has a lot of Tiger Moms while San Bernardino has a lot of low IQ Vato Cholos who say HEY HOMES a lot.
* To me the most interesting aspect of this post is the fact that from 2000-2013 California’s median household income declined from ~$70,000 to ~$60,000. It certainly wasn’t losing any billionaires over that period.
People are going to look around this country one day and wonder what the hell happened. In the late 20th and early 21st Centuries, political correctness, self-righteousness and greed colluded to utterly and completely destroy the richest, most powerful country in the world. The speed of that destruction is stupefying. To see a country, in the space of a single lifetime, altered so completely and irrevocably is a sight rare in history. And in our lifetimes it will not be one country destroyed, but the entirety of the West.
In the blink of an eye. Gone.
* My family and I had a house in Lake Arrowhead from the 70′s thru the 80′s. When we arrived, you could rent a sailboat, ski boat, fishing boat, or a canoe, and traverse the entire lake to your heart’s content. If you were 18 or over, you could rent out what you wanted.
As San Bernardino changed, so did Lake Arrowhead. Now the lake is on an economic/social “lockdown.” No boat rentals allowed. I’m guessing it has something to do with the new “tourists” from San Bernadino–would you really want to rent a boat to a bunch of gang members? Also, it’s likely boat owners don’t want gang members floating by on a rental boat to survey properties for potential “visits.” There was no way around renting to cholos, so they just eliminated the whole enterprise. Nobody allowed on the lake except property owners. You can rent out a ski instructor who will pull you with his boat, or go on a paddle-wheel boat, but nothing unaccompanied. They also closed down the public beach.
It’s frightening to think that hiking deep into the forest, as I liked to do, could bring you some serious grief if you happened upon a Mexican pot grove. To me, that issue changed that place forever. I’d never let a kid go hiking alone up there. They’ve had swat teams dropping from helicopters up there to challenge the Mexican drug farmers. I used to hike up there as a kid. I wouldn’t let kids hike up there now. Stumbling upon a pot farm up there would lead to unpleasant outcomes.
It’s a shame. Lake Arrowhead used to be called “Little Switzerland,” and it really was. I went up there a year ago. It wasn’t pleasant. Once a vibrant community, a little shangri la, now pretty depressing.
RIP Lake Arrowhead.
* It’s hard for an easterner to keep track but didn’t Vallejo make the news a couple of years ago for the transcendent corruption of its political leadership. It was certainly a city of similar vibrant diversity many of whose political class are now in the slammer. The issue of corruption and race/ethnicity is pretty much a taboo topic away from sites like this but wherever you find serious corruption and malfeasance in the public sector it seems to be almost a natural law that elements of our non-white population are playing a major role.
* Civilizations seem to change in a manner similar to punctuated equilibrium in evolution. Things seem stable for a while and then Bam! something changes in the environment and the organism changes so rapidly that we can’t find intermediary iterations in the fossil record. In our case the Bam! was the year 1965 and the evolution is a devolution.
* The vast majority of the Hispanic population in bankrupt San Bernardino, California do not look like the Spain national football team, if they did than San Bernardino would not have filed for bankruptcy.
Also in another thread I was talking about how 18 million Jews have produced more successful high IQ individuals than the world’s 154 million Mexicans.
Mexicans have always represented quantity (their huge numbers) but Mexicans have never represented quality. There is a reason why Americans who work in a career field that requires having a high IQ do not see Mexicans as a threat to their jobs. American doctors and American engineers do not see Mexicans as a threat to their jobs.
