Republicans have invoked the ‘Great Replacement’ theory over and over | Judd Legum

From JD Vance to Fox news hosts, the theory is being pushed relentlessly by the Republican mainstream - with dangerous consequences

The great replacement theory" can be traced back at least to Theodore G Bilbo, the brazenly racist US senator who held office from 1935 to 1947. Bilbo, an antisemite who acknowledged being a member of the Ku Klux Klan during an appearance on Meet the Press, warned that at the present rate of interbreeding and miscegenation and intermarriage between the [N-words] and the whites ... there'll be no whites, there'll be no Blacks in this country. We'll all be yellow [or brown]".

In 1947, Bilbo published a book Separation or Mongrelization: Take Your Choice. In the book, Bilbo argued that great civilizations of the ages have been produce[d] by the Caucasian race" and the mongrel not only lacks the ability to create a civilization, but he cannot maintain a culture that he finds around him". He asserted that the nation must choose between a White America and a mongrel America".