Citing VDare, Daily Wire's Matt Walsh discusses declining white population in New York City over the last century: “Those changes have not been positive”
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From the November 5, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): Now these numbers represent a drastic shift in more ways than one. And don't listen to anyone who tries to tell you, oh, it's always been this way. New York is — New York has always had a significant immigrant population. It's been this way for many generations. Well, yes, but not all immigration is the same.
You know, these immigrants are now coming from very different parts of the world compared to where they were coming from a hundred years ago.
You know, this chart prepared by VDare demonstrates this, as you can see here. And according to the US census, New York was 98% white in 1910. 98%. 90% in 1950. 77% white in 1970. Then it dropped to 52% in 1980. 44% by 1990. By 2020, it was down to 32%.
So, from almost everybody is white to a small minority, 32% in the span of about a hundred years. Now, that is a demographic transformation that's inevitably going to result in massive cultural changes, and those changes have not been positive. That's just a fact.
So anyone who says, oh, you're doing identity — even people — even conservatives. Well, this is identity politics. We need to be past this. Oh, shut up. This is just the reality. It's a thing that's happening. OK? We got to talk about the things that are happening in the country.