Gilbert Cavanaugh, American Renaissance, November 16, 2019

In 2013, Foreign Policy published an essay called “Before They Pass Away” with photographs of tribesmen from all around the world whose tribes are not expected to last much more than a generation or two. I have always found it striking how many people on earth know that their people — tribe, nation, ethny — won’t make it into the next century. Of course, one reason I think about this is that whites, especially certain groups of whites (e.g. Argentines, Boers), may be on the same mournful path.

Over the last year and a half, I have done a lot of traveling in the South, especially Georgia, and have been reminded of this over and over . It really hit me when I visited the Atlanta History Center, which highlighted the often overlooked fact that America’s demographic changes are perhaps more pronounced below the Mason-Dixie than anywhere else.

The text of this museum placard is transcribed below.