@Teri_Kanefield Meanwhile in India, Hindu nationalists belive that Muslims are intent on doing the same. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/may/30/the-truth-behind-indian-extremists-anti-muslim-great-replacement-theory

It seems that the Great Replacement is a standard conspiracy theory which crops up as part of any ethno-nationalist program, regardless of the facts.

@Teri_Kanefield I don't know if this was a factor in anti-Irish sentiment in America, but in Northern Ireland the Protestant majority has long entertained a theory that Catholics are intent on out-breeding the Protestants, and that Catholic prohibition of birth control is part of that. https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/claim-that-protestants-are-being-outbred-is-a-myth-1.83911

@AndyKotlarz @NilaJones @Teri_Kanefield Whilst evolutionary biology is an important framework for understanding human behaviour, behaviour doesn't fossilise. This makes it very hard to test any particular prediction it makes, including this one. Stephen J Gould criticised it for encouraging "just so stories" like this. The evolutionary story of xenophobia is certainly plausible, and IMO probably largely correct. But it's not a proven fact, and likely not that simple.

@Teri_Kanefield Thanks for writing this.

The demographics are skewed by "one drop" theory (any non-white ancestor -> you're not white). So those numbers reflect, at least in part, mixed marriages producing children defined by society as "not-white".

A "white" couple we know had a baby with distinctly negro features. Huge uproar, accusations of infidelity. DNA tests showed it *was* his, and she had an African ancestor from a century or so ago.

DNA isn't a paint pot.

@pluralistic One of the larger bills I pay for Internet services is for outgoing SMTP. Basically I pay them to deal with all this shit.