Remind me again: why do we want the USA to become more like Latin American?

The Washington Post reports:

Hispanic Population in United States Soars

In July 2004, Hispanics numbered 41.3 million out of a national population of nearly 293.7 million. They have the fastest growth rate among the nation's major racial and ethnic groups. In the 1990s, they accounted for 40 percent of the country's population increase. From 2000 to 2004, that figure grew to 49 percent...

The future of those young people has become the topic of a debate among advocates and scholars, with some noting that Hispanics already have lower average education levels than other Americans and that their children could face a future at the bottom...

Experts have predicted the rise of the Hispanic voting bloc for years, but it has not happened. The Census Bureau recently reported that 47 percent of Hispanic citizens voted in last year's presidential election, compared with 60 percent of blacks and 67 percent of non-Hispanic whites. Part of the reason might be that Hispanics are younger and poorer than other voters, factors that are linked to lower turnout. Hispanic voting power also is lessened because millions of them are illegal immigrants.

Meanwhile, the AP reports on a new study of millionaires around the world. In most regions, the average millionaire has a little over three million dollars in assets, but in Latin America the average millionaire has over twelve million dollars, almost four times as much.

	Millions of Millionaires	Trillions in Assets	Average in Millions
Asia-Pacific	2.3	$ 7.2	$ 3.1
Mid East	0.3	$ 1.0	$ 3.3
Europe	2.6	$ 8.9	$ 3.4
North America	2.7	$ 9.3	$ 3.4
Africa	0.1	$ 0.7	$ 7.0
Latin America	0.3	$ 3.7	$ 12.3

In other words, while Latin America isn't very rich, the rich in Latin America have more money than God. Why do we want to reproduce Latin American social patterns here?

It used to be that liberals could criticize Latin America for its staggering inequality, but that is largely not allowed anymore because it might reflect on immigration.

You can read about the link between illegal immigration and increased inequality in the US here:

http://www.isteve.com/Inequality-Immigration.htm

where I compare the relatively high levels of inequality in Arizona and New Mexico to the lower levels in the two states directly north of them Utah and Colorado.

And here's a recent column on why California has gotten more unequal as it has gotten more Democratic and more multicultural.

http://www.vdare.com/sailer/041121_ca.htm

Finally, here's a column of pure crimethink on why, after almost 500 years of interethnic marriage in Mexico, is the Mexican elite still so white looking:

http://www.isteve.com/ImportingMexicanInequality.htm
and

http://www.isteve.com/HowLatinoIntermarriageBreedsInequality.htm

I've gotten numerous emails from Mexicans saying that's the first time they've ever seen the basic fact of the their country's social history explained.

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