Demographics and the Great Replacement theory | Analysis of mechanisms

The article analyzes the process of transforming neutral demographic statistics into political narratives regarding the "Great Replacement." The author distinguishes numerical facts from their status-based interpretation, pointing out that the decline in the percentage share of the white population in the USA is not equivalent to physical replacement. The text emphasizes the fluidity of racial categories and the phenomenon of categorical assimilation, where previously excluded groups were incorporated into the definition of "whiteness." Additionally, it cites data on fertility convergence, which undermines the thesis of a permanent reproductive advantage of minorities over the majority. Overall, it demonstrates how demography becomes a tool of metapolitics and existential anxiety, serving to construct threat models within white supremacist discourse.