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12 3 so WHAT?
Over three years after I first met Julian Simon, I was having dinner
with him to debate our differences. We got on to the question of
whether multiethnic and multiracial societies can work.
"Yugoslavia ... ," I began, thinking of the Serbo-Croatian
Bosnian war that had exploded into the headlines.
"Yes! Yugoslavia!" he interrupted gleefully. "That supports my
case, doesn't it?"
I was so surprised that I felt my jaw drop-something that really
happens, I find, and not just in cartoons. It took me several seconds
to realize what he meant:
• The fonner Yugoslavs are fighting despite the fact that they are all
the same race (white). Indeed, they are all members of the same
PETER BR1MELOW 124
CHAPTERS
I. Richard A. Easterlin, "Immigration: Economic and Social Characteristics," in
Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, ed. Thernstrom, 485.
2. Edwin S. Rubenstein, economic consultant, New York, citing Economic Re
port of the President 1994, interview.
3. Peter Brimelow and Leslie Spencer, "You Can't Get There from Here,"
Forbes, luly 6, 1992.
4. Claudia Goldin, The Political Economy of Immigration Restriction in the
United States, 1890 to 1921, National Bureau of Economic Research, Working
Paper no. 4345 (Cambridge, Mass., 1993).
5. Edwin S. Rubenstein, economic consultant, New York City, interview; data
from McKinsey.
6. Larry Neal and Paul Uselding. "Immigration, a Neglected Source of American
Economic Growth: 1790 to 1912," Oxford Economic Papers (March 1972).
7. Economic Council of Canada, New Faces in the Crowd: Economic and Social
Impacts ofImmigration (Ottawa: Economic Council of Canada, 1991).
8. Neville R. Norman and Kathryn F. Meikle, The Economic Effects of Immigra
tion on Australia (Melbourne: Committee for Economic Development of Aus
tralia, 1985).
9. Virginia D. Abernethy, Population Politics: The Choices That Shape Our Fu
ture (New York: Insight Books, 1993). 197-211; Richard A. Easterlin. Michael
L. Wachter, and Susan M. Wachter, "Demographic Influences on Economic
Stability: The United States Experience," Proceedings of the American Philo
sophical Society (1978).
10. Neal and Uselding, "Immigration, a Neglected Source of American Economic
Growth: 1790 to 1912," Oxford Economic Papers, March 1972.
II. Michael S. Teitelbaum and lay M. Walker, The Fear of Population Decline
(Orlando, Fla.: Academic Press, 1985).
12. Simon Smith Kuznets, Modern Economic Growth: Rate, Structure and Spread
(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1966).
13. Simon, The Economic Consequences of Immigration, 252.
14. lulian L. Simon quoted in Forbes, April 2, 1990.
15. lared Taylor, Shadows ofthe Rising Sun (New York: Quill, 1983),86.
16. Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (Bos
ton: Little, Brown, 1993), 154.
17. lames Paul Allen and Eugene lames Turner, We the People: An A tlas ofAmer
ica's Ethnic Diversity (New York: Macmillan, 1988), 147.
18. Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom (1885; reprint, New York:
Dover Publications, 1969), 454.
19. Booker T. Washington quoted in lohn Tanton, "Cast Down Your Bucket
Where You Are," Social Contract, occasional paper 92-12,1992.
20. Cited in Simon, The Economic Consequences of Immigration, 228-29.
21. Ibid., 249, 347.
22. Borjas, "The Economics of Immigration," 48.
23. Andrew Hacker, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal
(New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992), 132.
24. Milton Friedman, interview by Peter Brimelow, Forbes, December 12,1988.
32 7 NOTES
CHAPTER 9
I. Fischer, Albion's Seed, 787, 834, 874.
2. Interviews with Office of Territorial and International Affairs, Department of
the Interior, Washington, D.C., and for the offices of American Samoa, Feder
ated States of Micronesia, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, and
the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
3. Ted Robert Gurr, ed., Violence in America, vol. 2, The History of Crime, 3d ed.
(Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1989).
4. Ted Robert Gurr, "Drowning in a Crime Wave," New York Times, April 13,
1989.
5. George Borjas, interview.
6. Federal prison figures from Senate Committee on Government Affairs, Perma
nent Subcommittee on Investigations, Investigation of the INS Criminal Alien
Program.
7. Los Angeles County, Countywide Criminal Justice Coordination Committee,
Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Criminal Aliens, Impact of Repeat Arrests of De
portable Criminal Aliens in Los Angeles County, Final Report, July 15 (Los An
geles, 1992).
8. House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees,
and International Law, testimony by Judge David O. Carter, November I,
1989.
9. Statement of Kathleen M. Hawk, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons to
House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on International Law, Immigra
tion and Refugees, February 23, 1994 (one percent confined for "other drug
offenses").
10. California State Department of Corrections, Center for Immigration Studies,
interviews.
II. Jared Taylor, Paved with Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in
Contemporary America (New York: Carroll and Graf, 1992), 37.
12. Robert 1. Friedman, "Brighton Beach GoodfeJlas," Vanity Fair, January 1993.
13. New York Times, April 5, 1994.
14. Sowell, Ethnic America, 29.
15. Thernstrom, The Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, 491.
16. Carol Innerst, Washington Times, March 21, 1993; August 19, 1994.
17. New York Times, May 4, 1987.
18. Spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, quoted in the Detroit
News, April II, 1992.
19. American Medical News, March 23-30, 1992; San Diego Union, August 31,
1986; American Family Physician, March 1992.
20. U.S. Institute of Medicine spokesman quoted in John Maurice, (London) New
Scientist; as reprint, World Press Review, February 1994.
21. Forbes, July 6, 1992.
22. Wattenberg, The First Universal Nation. 73.
23. Leon F. Bouvier, 50 Million Californians? (Washington, D.C.: Center for Im
migration Studies, 1991).