Wilder's Latest: What America Might Look Like At It's 350th Anniversary

John Wilder's latest is up: "America 350: Looking Backward from 2126." Short take is that a financial crises in the 2030s causes the country to start to fracture. An excerpt:

In a United States that ceased to have an overwhelming majority of Western European-derived populace, what has happened at every point in history happened: cultural lines formed along racial lines, and self-segregation again took hold. First this was by neighborhood, then by city, then, finally, by region.

This actually had already started to happen in the 1950, '60s and '70s before it was effectively quashed. It was called "white flight" which Wikipedia describes as "the sudden or gradual large-scale migration of white people from areas becoming more racially or ethnoculturally diverse to more racially homogenous suburban or exurban regions." It goes on (footnotes omitted):

Migration of middle-class white populations was observed during the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s out of cities such as Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, Kansas City and Oakland, although racial segregation of public schools had ended there long before the Supreme Court of the United States' decision Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. In the 1970s, attempts to achieve effective desegregation (or "integration") by means of busing in some areas led to more families' moving out of former areas. More generally, some historians suggest that white flight occurred in response to population pressures, both from the large migration of blacks from the rural Southern United States to urban cities of the Northeastern United States, Midwestern United States and the Western United States in the Great Migration and the waves of new immigrants from around the world.   

The federal government, state governments, local governments, and the courts worked hard to quash "white flight" through laws prohibiting discrimination in housing and through the aforementioned forced busing. The difference between then and what Wilder is predicting is that decades back, the populace could be propagandized into believing that diversity was a strength, while now it increasingly apparent that the opposite is true--hence the sudden interest in controlling what people can read or see on the Internet--with even the research showing that it destroys social capital and trust. The fact that terms like "high trust" and "low trust" societies is bandied about shows that the narrative is falling apart. 

     John is ultimately optimistic, however, seeing a stronger, more unified country arising from the chaos of the mid-21st Century.