Kevin Phillips Quotes
Within the 13 colonies, it is a good bet that one-third to one-half of the 150 or so counties that existed in 1775 had populations in which “outsiders”—persons born outside the province or at least one parent born outside—outnumbered “natives”.
In the earliest white and Black subpopulations of Colonial America, “outsiders”—were commonplace. The original colonists were ALL immigrants. This tradition of acceptance and integration of outsiders has been very successful in America, Australia, and New Zealand compared with most cultures and nations that are more nativist and xenophobic. It also makes American nativist and anti-immigrants somewhat hypocritical given their own family origins. See {629005}.
Kevin Phillips, Historian, Author & Political Columnist, Senior Strategist, Nixon Presidential Campaign, Congressional Staffer (Republican) 1775: A Good Year For Revolution, 2012
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The French were at the time considered the major barrier to growth and development of the colonies.
It was on this date that for the first time in American History, the number of minority babies born was greater than the number of majority--white, non Hispanic—babies.
This was just the beginning of the vast emigration from Ireland to America and elsewhere.
- Born: November 30, 1940
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- Profession: Author, Columnist, Pundit
Kevin Price Phillips is an American writer and commentator on politics, economics, and history. Formerly a Republican Party strategist before becoming an Independent, Phillips became disaffected with the party from the 1990s, and became a critic. He is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times, Harper's Magazine, and National Public Radio, and was a political analyst on PBS' NOW with Bill Moyers.
