In this video, "The American Experiment: Can a Multi-Racial Society Actually Survive?", Victor Davis Hanson briefly explores the issue of whether it is possible for a multi-racial society to survive and exist. The historical examples he raises, such as the late Roman Empire, suggest not. And certainly we seem to see it faltering now as tribalism--particularly ethnic tribalism--replaces the "melting pot" that was the American Experiment. So, the short answer appears to be "no". The American Experiment worked as long as we were dealing with people of a common or similar heritage: English, in particular, but Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples more generally.
Thus I have to agree with something that Vox Day wrote recently:
... America has been invaded, conquered, and occupied. My estimate is that after the disintegration wars wind down, about one-third to one-half of current US territory will ultimately be controlled by people who can be more or less be reasonably described as Americans, while the rest will be divided into various forms of states ruled by diversity of one kind or another.
But this will be after a movement of peoples that rivals the post-imperial Partition of India.
I hear Balkanization is lovely this year.
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