The National Policy Institute estimates what the world will look like in 2060 – about 50 years hence.

According to an article in Human Events authored by Pat Buchanan and published on May 2, 2008 in 1950 whites were 18% of the world’s population and Africans accounted for 9%. By 2060 the percentages will be about the same but the colors reversed. Two hundred million whites will vanish by then. Arabic people, counted among whites, will rise ten-fold to 743 million and account for 75% of whites.

Iran’s population will rise from 71 to 100 million. Pakistan will grow to 300 million from about 71 million today. Afghanistan will triple to 79 million and Iraq will leap from 29 to 62 million. In America Hispanics will triple to 127 million while Mexico will grow to 130 million.

Last October PEW RESEARCH asked 45,000 people in 47 countries what they thought and majorities in 46 countries expressed fear about loss of their national culture. Sixty-two percent of Americans said more must be done to protect “our way of life.” Three-fourths wanted stiffer immigration laws and restrictions. Asians, Africans and Middle Easterners appear, by simple weight of numbers appear to be poised to inherit the earth.

“This is the way the world ends, “wrote T. S. Eliot in his closing couplet of “The Hollow Men,” “Not with a bang but a whimper.” It begs the question of whose world to which he referred.

As of Monday morning fifty-six percent (56%) of voters nationwide disagree with Barack Obama’s statement that people in small towns “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 25% agree with the Democratic frontrunner while 19% are not sure.

A plurality of politically liberal voters—46%–agree with Obama’s statement while 33% disagree. Moderate voters take the opposite view and disagree by a 51% to 27% margin. Seventy-four percent (74%) of conservatives disagree with Obama’s statement, only 12% agree.Democrats are fairly evenly divided—34% agree with Obama and 43% disagree. Generally, Obama supporters agree with him while Hillary Clinton’s supporters disagree.

Republicans overwhelmingly disagree with the statement and unaffiliated voters disagree by a two-to-one margin.

Voters under 30 are evenly divided on Obama’s statement while their elders strongly disagree. Fifty-three percent (53%) of African-Americans agree with Obama’s statement while 29% disagree. White voters disagree by a 3-to-1 margin.

Mexican President Felipe Calderón spoke today before a joint session of the California legislature. He stressed the need for comprehensive immigration reform that is “legal, safe and organized” – whatever that means. Californians are on the front row of the firing line on the immigration issue with every state and local service is being heavily impacted.

The chamber contained most of the “limping” 42 current legislators that voters made lame ducks last week by dumping their scheme to stay in office by “reforming” term limits. Voter rejection of Proposition 93 set off a “gold rush” of assembly member wannabes lining up for Senate seat; Senators eying everything available, and others queuing for the Assembly. The place looks like a stampede at a worm farm right now but when last week sinks in there won’t a long fingernail left.

Strict new laws in OKLAHOMA and ARIZONA against hiring illegal immigrants appear to be achieving their goal of driving undocumented workers out of those states and COLORADO and GEORGIA are getting ready to do the same thing and of course it is against federal law too. But. not everyone is happy. The Greater Oklahoma City Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, for instance, estimates that as much as 20 percent of the city’s construction workforce — 15,000 to 20,000 workers — has left the state. Some local businesses have simply shut down for lack of employees the Hispanic Chamber says.