1970 was the year in which I was born, that event aside, it was not a particularly momentous year, the Beatles released the album “Let it be” and then split up, Edward Heath was elected prime minister of Britain and Jimmy Carter Governor of Georgia (or was that '71?), Dana won the Eurovision Song Contest with “All kinds of Everything”, whilst both Janis Joplin and Jimmy Hendrix over dosed and died, in addition, first Tonga and then Fiji became independent and Rhodesia declared itself a republic.

Also in 1970, non-Hispanic whites made up 80% of the population of the US state of California.

Back then, and justifiably called “The Golden State”, California was the epitome of the American Dream and the place where everyone wanted to be. It was the state where dreams came true and life was easy, if you were unlucky enough not to be there the songs told you to dream of California on a winters day, and people across America and beyond did dream.

It was also the place to make money, California in 1970 was booming, it, as a single state was to become the world's eighth largest economy, it was the home of the Beach Boys, Silicone Valley and the Dream factories, it was where people went to become successful and the successful went to become more so.

It's cities were places people wanted to be. Los Angeles, the City of Angels, had only glimpsed the first hint of the escalating homicide, and wider crime, rate which over the following decades would turn it into the crime ridden realm of gangsters it has become. San Francisco, despite the fruits and nuts who had already arrived, and who were painted so beautifully by Amstead Maupin in his enchanting, but unreal, Tales of the City, was still the glittering city with the golden gate. Another of those clean, prosperous and once safe cities which we, white people, built.

But that was 1970, and how things have changed.

In the time it took a girl to grow to womanhood and raise a child to his teens, California changed from a land of dreams to a place which is starting to resemble a nightmare.

In 39 years non-Hispanic whites went from 80% of the population to just 43%, in percentage terms they have been cut all but by half. Meanwhile, the once golden economy has all but collapsed, it it billions of dollars in debt and the state has now started paying its bills, including some wage bills in IOU's, which it has very little idea when, or if. it will honour. It is said that, were California a company, it would be declared bankrupt, and even some Left wing papers such as The Guardian have begun to speculate as to whether California will become the first failed US state

So how did this happen? What brought about this total reversal in fortune? How did the state which had everything come to this? Was it a failure of Capitalism? A symptom of excess, or just more evidence of what our friends at the Guardian like to see, and greet with delight, as the inevitable decline of Western civilisation? Or does the answer lie in the first sentence of the paragraph above. Is the answer that a successful 80% white state has become a 57% non-white basket case because of that staggering demographic change.

Immigration into California, both legal and illegal, has gone out of control over the past four decades. The amazing fact is that of the 100.7 million members of ethnic minorities living in the USA, 21% of them live in California.

Didn't someone tell us that immigrants were supposed to be good for the economy?.

Of course California is not the only place which refuses to acknowledge what is so patently obvious. In Britain we have also seen decades of out of control immigration, escalating massively over the last ten years , and this year our economy reached a low which it had only ever reached once before in history, and that was at the end of World War II. It has never before, in peace time, been in such a bad state, and we have never been in no much debt. We now face the largest budget deficit in history.

Today in Manchester, the opposition Conservative party, the people who hope to form our next government, were left with no option other than to lay out plans of almost unequalled austerity including numerous cuts and freezes, plus the fact that anyone now aged less than 57, will now have to work an extra year before they are eligible for a pension. They acknowledge the state we are in, but they will not acknowledge why.

We have no idea how we will carry on paying future pensions, yet we continue to import future pensioners. we await the next unemployment figures in trepidation, yet we import more competition for a dwindling number of jobs. As Enoch Powell said, those whom the Gods wish to destroy they first make mad, he was right and the madness continues.

California may have gone mad earlier than us, and their madness may have been even more acute, but we are not far behind. Sadly I believe that California's fate is sealed, for those driving that crammed wagon train to Hell are in such ideological bondage they will willingly embrace failure before they embrace the truth. However, will we follow them? Will our leaders, and most of our people, admit the truth that we are welcoming our destruction into our country by the thousands every day, before we become a failed European state? There are times when I struggle to be optimistic.

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Sarah: Maid of Albion