A Snapshot on the Decline of American Cities

 

 

The West Coast featured some of the Whitest cities in America by the 1960s.

Largely unaffected by the Second Great Migration, these cities were rapidly growing, wealthy, and shifting the center of the nation Westward. From 1940 to 1960 the population of Seattle grew by 200,000 while the population of Portland grew by some 70,000 and Los Angeles experienced a population boom of nearly 1 million people.

Wealth, innovation, technological development, and significant centers of trade were established up and down the West Coast’s rapidly expanding White cities, but the project clearly did not last.

But mass immigration has transformed them, drastically increasing their Asian and Hispanic populations while displacing Whites.

Seattle, and Washington State, used to have a violent crime rate far below the national average, but this is no longer the case. Violent crime in the city has spiked and continues to rise, while the state of Washington’s violent crime rate now matches that of the rest of the nation.

 

Even today cities like Portland, which are incredibly left-wing, are lambasted as evil for being “The Whitest City in America” despite decades of demographic change at the expense of the Whites who founded these cities. This is happening despite the fact that the non-White population of the city has driven a massive increase in theft.

In 2022 theft rates were up 88% on the previous year, while between 2023 and 2024 the rate of theft has jumped another 38%. Portland is now #5 in the nation for car theft and shops and markets all around the city are closing as unpunished thievery damages their viability.

And then there is Los Angeles. Whether it be Hispanic serial killers or the record number of homeless, the city is in dire straights in its post-White era.

This doesn’t mean that these Whites are without policy options. The majority of voters in these states, even in California, are still White and could still turn back the tide of the Great Replacement if they were informed and motivated to do so.

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