The birthrate among the most conservative Americans is still over 2.0. From the perspective of the conservative movement in power, it makes sense to halt immigration so the population becomes more and more conservative over time (as immigrants are left-leaning on average, especially Indians).
That will not be enough to offset the oncoming boom in infant mortality.
Curious what you're basing that on?
Indians and even Chinese, not to mention most of the non-European immigrants, are relatively conservative (socially reserved, self reliant, lots of self responsibility) and are only seen as left leaning in the toxic form of nationalistic conservatism that dominates the USA.
At least, that was the messaging around 2019 when we were telling coal miners to 'learn to code.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/changing-america/en...
Now we are saying it takes a specific mindset...
It's also looking like those coal miners who pushed back had more foresight as the market is saturated and with the AI sea change.
https://futurism.com/computer-science-majors-high-unemployme...
I do agree with you in part however, it takes ambition to succeed. This is true no matter if you are an immigrant or native born.
Maybe the real question should be, why is our population losing their ambition?
Why do you think Utah is the richest red state? Mormon religion doesn’t see math/ science to conflict with faith for some reason, you will see a lot of Mormon programmers especially out here in the west. But the same isn’t true for the rest of red state America. Better yet, compare with China: China is a conservative country, but they believe in education. We simply don’t have that advantage in general.
https://www.hoover.org/research/seattle-schools-propose-teac...
> China is a conservative country but they believe in education
China is a communist country that banned private tutoring because some children were getting ahead, creating inequality (the "double reduction" policy).
When you give American conservatives actual numbers on the economy, weather, healthcare, they assert that they would much rather go with what they think is true vs what actually is true. They simply don’t believe in data and math, you aren’t going to advance much in tech that way.
You are conflating "government data" with "math" as if they're the same thing. That's a massive error and suggests you should fix your own understandings before attacking other people's. Someone saying they don't trust the government to report honest/accurate numbers doesn't mean they think math is a conspiracy, and it's a ridiculous distortion to present it like that. In fact, it's exactly that kind of behavior that causes conservatives to not trust leftists (and by extension the government departments most full of them).
I have no idea if their claim that the "birthrate among the most conservative Americans is still over 2.0" is correct, but a demographic power struggle totally fits the rhetoric I observe from abroad.