The “lifestyle” columnist for Maine’s largest daily is worried that the state’s largest city is losing the fight to newcomers.
“Portland’s Maine-born population has dropped to 40%,” Leslie Bridgers writes. “Is that a problem?”
Well apparently it is or Bridgers would neither have asked the question nor written an entire column about it.
Bridgers complains that the percentage of Portland’s native-born residents is lower than anytime in memory.
“Bringing diversity and new energy to a place are generally considered positive changes, fostering innovation and expanding everyone’s perspective,” Bridgers writes. “But is there a breaking point in the ratio of natives to newcomers at which the identity of a city starts to slip away?”
Bridgers never defined what she means by “diversity” for if she did she’d be outside the white lines, so to speak.
Conservatives using the word “diversity” is a crime.
Yet when Portland Press Herald staffers uses it to decry loss of the native population, suddenly it’s OK – just as long as they stay safe by never defining what they mean wink wink.
If they did suddenly they’d have to say “well we’re not criticizing that kind of diversity.”
That’s why they don’t want to go down that rabbit hole.
Defining “diversity” would require a certain reality…
Bridgers is upset that In 20 years, from 1970 to 2000, Portland has lost 13 percent of its natives to newcomers.
The influx includes not only U.S. citizens from other cities and states but of course foreigners without citizenship – some of them illegal.
But when federal border-enforcement agents came into Portland recently to clear out the illegals, the state’s liberal paper of record couldn’t have been more alarmist.
Suddenly the newspaper in Maine’s most-liberal neck of the state apparently ain’t so welcoming – or liberal.
When the paper’s braintrust is editorializing against the loss of the native population, that isn’t liberalism, which apparently escaped them.
Oops!
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