In March 2021, two months into his catastrophic, one-term presidency, Joe Biden appointed Kamala Harris to lead the campaign of "stemming the migration to our southern border."
At a joint press conference, while the vice president delivered an anodyne promise to "address the root causes" of illegal immigration, President Biden specified "gang violence and trafficking and cartels" in four Central American countries, in addition to "natural disasters, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes."
Despite Biden's and Harris' diversionary blather about the conditions in foreign countries propelling what has become an unprecedented tsunami of more than 10 million illegal immigrants, two major reasons for this ongoing national tragedy are the population explosions in flourishing Republican Southern states and the concomitant demographic stagnations in dysfunctional Democrat states in the Northeast and Midwest.
In 1970, the Census Bureau counted 203.2 million people in the United States, of whom 62.8 million, or 31%, lived in 16 Southern states.
The Midwest's 12 states had 56.6 million residents, or 28%, and the Northeast's nine states had 49.0 million, or 24%, for a combined 52% of America's total.
The 13 Western states were home to 34.8 million people, or 17%.
But by 2023, America's population had grown by a vigorous 131.7 million, or 65%, to 334.9 million citizens and noncitizens.
The Southern states skyrocketed by 67.3 million people, or 107%, to 130.1 million.
Conversely, since the Northeastern states inched up by just 16%, or 8 million, to 57 million residents, they steeply declined to only 17% of total population.
Similarly, while the Midwestern states increased by a modest 12.3 million people, or 22%, to 68.9 million, they dropped sharply to 21% of America's population.
Therefore, last year, the South's phenomenal 130.1 million residents, or 39% of total population, exceeded by 4.2 million people the combined 125.9 million residents, or 38%, in the Northeast and Midwest.
Additionally, between 1970 and 2023, the Western states boomed by 44.1 million, or a spectacular 127%, to 78.9 million, for 24% of the nation's population.
Amazingly, three mega-populated Republican states increased by a mind-boggling 33.4 million residents, led by Florida's addition of a humongous 15.8 million residents, or 232%, from 6.8 million to 22.6 million.
Texas exploded by 11.2 million residents, or 58%, from 19.3 million in 1970 to 30.5 million in 2023.
Georgia jumped from 4.6 million to 11.0 million, a remarkable gain of 6.4 million residents, or 139%.
By contrast, between 1970 and 2023, three Democratic super-states combined for a puny increase of 3.9 million residents.
New York, the no-longer Empire State, saw its population congeal from 18.2 million to 19.6 million, for a microscopic gain of 1.4 million people, or 8%.
Illinois edged up from 11.1 million to 12.5 million, for a 1.4 million increase, or 13%.
Michigan's population grew modestly by 1.1 million, from 8.9 million to 10.0 million, for a growth of 12%.
Two other unacknowledged "root causes" for the Biden-Harris administration's nefarious open borders are the enrollment explosion in K-12 public schools in the South and the stagnation of the student population in the Northeast and Midwest.
In 1990, U.S. public schools enrolled 42,217,000 students, of whom 9,944,000, or 24%, were in the Midwest and 7,282,000, or 17%, were in the Northeast, for a combined 17,226,000 students, or 41%.
Southern public schools had 14,807,000 students, or 35%.
But by 2022, enrollment in Southern public schools had expanded by 5,070,000 to 19,877,000, or 40% of the nation's 49,618,000 students.
The Northeast's 7,611,000 students, or 15%, and the Midwest's 10,177,000, or 21%, combined for 17,788,000, or 36%, an addition of a miniscule 562,000 students.
More granularly in 1990, three current trifecta, Democratic, mega-states — New York, Illinois, and Michigan — had a combined 6,003,000 public school students, or 14% of America's 42,217,000.
Almost identically, three currently Republican states — Texas, Florida, and Georgia — had 6,397,000, or 15% of the nation's total.
But in 2022, the three Democratic super-states totaled only 5,819,000 students, a decline of 184,000 students, and they represented only 12% of America's 49,618,000 public school students.
The three Republican super-states had boomed by 3,745,000 students to 10,142,000, or a gigantic 20% of the nation's total.
Two other cataclysmic demographic stagnations, which are traumatizing Vice President Harris and other Democratic Party leaders, are the COVID-19-era population and school-enrollment declines in California, her home state.
The no-longer Golden State's population was 39,538,000 in 2020, but it dropped by 573,000 to 38,965,000 in 2023.
Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom's dystopia also suffered a sharp decrease of 319,000 public school students, from 6,249,000 students in 2019 to 5,930,000 in 2023.
More ominously, the National Center for Educational Statistics projects a monumental decline of 930,000 additional students, to 5,000,000, by 2031.
In conclusion, for more than a half-century, America's demographic, political, and educational dominance inexorably shifted to the booming, free Southern states from an ossified group of radical-left and authoritarian states in Northeast and Midwest.
The Biden-Harris administration's massive illegal immigration will not impede this historic, healthy, regional transformation.
Mark Schulte is a retired New York City schoolteacher and mathematician who has written extensively about science and the history of science. Read Mark Schulte's Reports — More Here.