{"id":81901,"date":"2025-02-04T19:26:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T01:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=81901"},"modified":"2025-02-04T19:26:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T01:26:41","slug":"race-reality-why-are-african-american-births-plummeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/race-reality-why-are-african-american-births-plummeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Race Reality: Why are African-American Births Plummeting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-81620 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Martin-Looter.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Martin-Looter.png 512w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Martin-Looter-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Martin-Looter-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"post-title unpublished\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stevesailer.net\/p\/why-are-african-american-births-plummeting?publication_id=1225250&amp;post_id=156443284&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=cjt3u&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\">Why are African-American births plummeting?<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>As you likely know, an increased rate of decline in births began in the US and much of the world a few years before Covid exacerbated the decline. Why the birth dearth sped up around 2017 is uncertain. There\u2019s no obvious explanation for what was going on around 2016 to depress conception in many countries, like the economic crash of 2008 or the pandemic of 2020.<\/h2>\n<h2>The CDC has just released provisional 2024 birthrate totals (you can find the CDC\u2019s extensive Natality data interface\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/natality.html\" rel=\"\">here<\/a>). Here in the U.S., total births were up 0.6% in 2024, although that rise is due to increasing births to immigrant mothers.<\/h2>\n<h2>Interestingly, the CDC Natality interface allows you to distinguish between U.S.-born and foreign-born mothers, which most other federal data does not. (Apparently, you just ask people where they were born and they tell you.)<\/h2>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stevesailer.net\/p\/why-are-african-american-births-plummeting?publication_id=1225250&amp;post_id=156443284&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=cjt3u&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\">RTWT @ Steve Sailer<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-81903 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Office-Party.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are African-American births plummeting? &nbsp; As you likely know, an increased rate of decline in births began in the US and much of the world a few years before Covid exacerbated the decline. Why the birth dearth sped up around 2017 is uncertain. There\u2019s no obvious explanation for what was going on around 2016&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9583,14221,8994,7317,481,10031,482,483,484],"tags":[18532,15907,16178],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81901"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81905,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81901\/revisions\/81905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}