# If all the white women in the world disappeared and only white men were left...? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 3, 2014, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-all-the-white-women-in-the-world-disappeared-and-only-white-men-were-left/687576 "2014-05-03T12:57:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2014, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-all-the-white-women-in-the-world-disappeared-and-only-white-men-were-left/687576/21 "2014-05-03T22:05:22Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > . . . > > The Democratic party would crater, the U.S. becomes even more right wing. > > . . . I disagree. As white males are forced to choose between celibacy and openness, and the sheer reduction in the numbers of women results in jerks being left mateless, the social pressure would push most males to the left of the political spectrum. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2014, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-all-the-white-women-in-the-world-disappeared-and-only-white-men-were-left/687576/22 "2014-05-03T22:30:23Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > I disagree. As white males are forced to choose between celibacy and openness, and the sheer reduction in the numbers of women results in jerks being left mateless, the social pressure would push most males to the left of the political spectrum. How? It doesn’t matter how the men act, there won’t be any women for them. The white women won’t be replaced by immigrants for years, maybe decades. We’re talking about ~100 million people going poof. Besides, I don’t see why a conservative would turn into a liberal just because he has to date a non-white woman now. White women already hugely favor the Democrats, didn’t change 'em already. > [@dofe](#): > > Nope, not racist at all. How? Black men/white women and white men/asian women are the most common interracial couplings in the U.S. I only said maybe for asians because I’m pretty sure white dudes have jungle fever way more than the other way around. But I guess all women in NA would be winners since their value would increase dramatically overnight just out of increased demand. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2014, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-all-the-white-women-in-the-world-disappeared-and-only-white-men-were-left/687576/23 "2014-05-03T23:52:39Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/493pL_Vbtnc/hqdefault.jpg "Where The White Women At? - Blazing Saddles") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=493pL_Vbtnc) ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-all-the-white-women-in-the-world-disappeared-and-only-white-men-were-left/687576/24 "2014-05-04T02:24:46Z")
[Worrying about the future of the ‘White Race’ is already moot.](https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/population/cb12-90.html) ---
**Author:** ![Belowjob2.0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Belowjob2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belowjob2.0)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-all-the-white-women-in-the-world-disappeared-and-only-white-men-were-left/687576/25 "2014-05-04T02:39:24Z")
Black Americans are on average, 18% European ancestry. Mexicans, in Mexico, are about 50-50 European/Native American ancestry. I’m assuming the numbers are similar for US Hispanics. So, still plenty of Euro DNA in the female minority population. White guys take wives from the Latina and black population. They probably exhibit a preference for the most Euro looking women in these populations, with the white guys with the highest social status/money/education getting the pick of the litter. Their kids are substantially European genetically, and entirely white in a social sense. In all of the Americas, whiteness has always been socially and culturally defined, and subject to change depending on political circumstances. The offspring of upper class white men and minority women become the new upper classes. A bit more tan and beige than before, but otherwise nothing really changes. This is more or less what’s already happened in most Latin American countries. As TruCelt pointed out, the idea of unmixed whiteness anywhere in the Americas is a bit silly. Millions of white Americans currently have small amounts of African DNA. Almost all black Americans have European DNA. **Large scale immigration from Mexico has resulted in a net increase in the percentage of European DNA in the US population.** ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-all-the-white-women-in-the-world-disappeared-and-only-white-men-were-left/687576/26 "2014-05-04T04:09:55Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > . . . and anybody who says that is more interested in strong-arming enforcement of political correctness than in learning with exploratory questions about how things work the real world, and/or has no curiosity. Combined with a new poster? Methinks not. Considering the number of racists and defenders of racists we get here on a regular and continuing basis, it’s a fair point to make and not driven by political correctness. > [@jtur88](#): > > Seriously – do you deny that some people are whiter than others, and that is genetically determined, Phenotypic? Sure. But as we have seen repeatedly across multiple threads, some people mean phenotype, others mean genotype, and others mean “I’ll tell you on a case by case basis”. Again, considering the large ecology of racists we see on a regular basis, it’s a fair question to straighten this out ahead of time and save ourselves the trouble. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-all-the-white-women-in-the-world-disappeared-and-only-white-men-were-left/687576/27 "2014-05-04T04:21:12Z")
Some pretty serious social upheaval, that’s for sure. But the biological imperative would assert itself and within a generation America would be looking much browner. In the distant future of Joe Haldeman’s _The Forever War_, global racial mixing has led to everyone looking vaguely like a Pacific Islander. ---
**Author:** ![Belowjob2.0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Belowjob2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belowjob2.0)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-all-the-white-women-in-the-world-disappeared-and-only-white-men-were-left/687576/28 "2014-05-04T12:09:53Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Some pretty serious social upheaval, that’s for sure. But the biological imperative would assert itself and within a generation America would be looking much browner. > > In the distant future of Joe Haldeman’s _The Forever War_, global racial mixing has led to everyone looking vaguely like a Pacific Islander. Jeb Bush marrying a dark skinned Latina and having dark skinned kid hasn’t resulted in any great changes. Class trumps race everywhere in the Americas, even in the US, these days. Now, as long as men with blue eyes, blond hair, and fair skin are fathering kids, these traits won’won’t be bred out of the population. Susan Rice is black, but her kids are white, and her daughter is blonde. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-all-the-white-women-in-the-world-disappeared-and-only-white-men-were-left/687576/29 "2014-05-04T13:53:38Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > How come the hypothetical is if there are no white _women_? Why not the other way around? > > (highlighting mine) > Does\*\* your hypothetical “disappear” the very large number of phenotypically-caucasian, culturally Western, “Hispanics”? Or are we “not white” for the purposes of this experiment? …There will still be some of them complaining that just because he’s New American does not mean he’s privileged. Huh? This came from where? > [@silenus](#): > > Did somebody get tossed out of Stormfront? > [@silenus](#): > > Anyone who asks a question about “white women” and “white men” isn’t _just asking questions_ out of curiosity. Etc. etc. Answers like this are the classic definition of “knee-jerk” based on OP as it stands. Notice even currently we have a general question on evolution change among populations–which of course is, God knows, a valid scientific inquiry. (So is eugenics, as a concept.) My first thought was that OP wandered over from there with a direct question/thought to focus a concept and didn’t want to hijack. Coming from there, or even with no prior environment, it’s a natural and fine OP that I too, a well known Neo-Nazi, opened up to see where it would go as a GQ. Refining/defining “white” and “human population” as an early post-reply makes sense. So does, eventually as some GQ threads go, comments on motivation of OP (which here, so early, can come close to thread-shitting) or drift-generated ramifications of OP. Instant cries of racism or so fucking easy. I mean, here, _instant._ Perhaps those who comment so quickly are proud of their alertness, their exquisite sensibility to such moral failure. They hear dog-whistles (and this is a dog-siren), others do not. It’s unwarranted, often self-serving, and, in the present case-example, inimical to decent social behavior. Later on, if more evidence accrues about OP’s nastiness, we can slaughter the bastard. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-all-the-white-women-in-the-world-disappeared-and-only-white-men-were-left/687576/30 "2014-05-04T16:06:57Z")
One might look at Brazil as the closest\* approximation of the OP’s hypothetical. There are all shades of white to black and different classification depending on where one falls in the spectrum. We, in the US, once had a system not unlike that (Quadroon, Octoroon, etc.) but those terms are more or less archaic. \*n.b. “closest” doesn’t mean “close”, just the one extant society closest to what the OP is proposing. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-all-the-white-women-in-the-world-disappeared-and-only-white-men-were-left/687576/31 "2014-05-04T16:09:12Z")
Name one person who, in their debut on this board has _asked a question_ about the “white race” and hasn’t been a Nazi bastard. I’ve been dealing with shit since the day I was born because of my family name (think Goebbels but not quite) and I can spot that type a kilometer away. “White race” isn’t a dog whistle, it’s an air raid siren. My response is completely warranted and there should be no desire to be social in any fashion to those who hold said views. If the OP has been scared away after three posts, I doubt we have lost a valued and contributing member to the board. However, should he return and demonstrate that he _isn’t_ a Nazi bastard, I will publically apologize, rending my garment and tossing ashes on what used to be my hair. ---
**Author:** ![sbunny8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@sbunny8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sbunny8)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-all-the-white-women-in-the-world-disappeared-and-only-white-men-were-left/687576/32 "2014-05-04T16:42:44Z")
I read an article a few years ago about a scientist who asked subjects to self-identify their race and did genetic testing on them looking for markers which indicate European and/or African ancestry. The results he found were… 35% of Americans who call themselves “white” actually have some Africans in their family tree. 98% of Americans who call themselves “black” actually have some Europeans in their family tree. IIRC, the scientist (who considers himself “white”) was surprised to find that he himself had a larger fraction of African ancestry than any of the other “white” people in the study. My conclusion is that roughly half the USA is biracial and we just won’t admit it. So, if you suddenly increased the number of biracial couples and they all had biracial babies, those babies would grow up to call themselves “black” or “white” just like people have done in the past and keep doing now. If you ask me, the whole thing is silly, really. It’s also worth mentioning that conventional wisdom on this subject has changed dramatically over the years. In the year 1885, Irish Americans were not considered “white”. And I read a post from a man living in England in the 1980s who had 3 grandparents from England plus 1 from India, and called himself “black”. And I’m sure you can start an argument almost anywhere in the world by asking whether Jews are white or not. How about Vikings? Or Eskimos? And if you consider Europeans to be white, where do you draw the line of what is part of Europe? Do Russians count? How about Greeks and Turks? Turkey is part of the EU and also NATO now. But others would argue it’s actually in the middle east. What a big mess. Anyway, that’s my prediction. After all the “white” women disappeared, you’d have a big mess, just like the big mess we already had before they disappeared. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-all-the-white-women-in-the-world-disappeared-and-only-white-men-were-left/687576/33 "2014-05-04T16:55:57Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Did somebody get tossed out of Stormfront? **Moderator Warning** **silenus** , I’ve repeatedly asked you to tone down your remarks in GQ and elsewhere on the board. You’re well aware that insults are not permitted in General Questions, no matter what you think of the OP. Don’t do this again. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-all-the-white-women-in-the-world-disappeared-and-only-white-men-were-left/687576/34 "2014-05-04T17:07:34Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Did somebody get tossed out of Stormfront? > [@silenus](#): > > Anyone who asks a question about “white women” and “white men” isn’t _just asking questions_ out of curiosity. > [@dofe](#): > > Nope, not racist at all. > [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Combined with a new poster? > > Methinks not. Considering the number of racists and defenders of racists we get here on a regular and continuing basis, it’s a fair point to make and not driven by political correctness. > [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > Instant cries of racism or so fucking easy. I mean, here, _instant._ Perhaps those who comment so quickly are proud of their alertness, their exquisite sensibility to such moral failure. They hear dog-whistles (and this is a dog-siren), others do not. > [@silenus](#): > > Name one person who, in their debut on this board has _asked a question_ about the “white race” and hasn’t been a Nazi bastard. I’ve been dealing with shit since the day I was born because of my family name (think Goebbels but not quite) and I can spot that type a kilometer away. > > “White race” isn’t a dog whistle, it’s an air raid siren. My response is completely warranted and there should be no desire to be social in any fashion to those who hold said views. If the OP has been scared away after three posts, I doubt we have lost a valued and contributing member to the board. However, should he return and demonstrate that he _isn’t_ a Nazi bastard, I will publically apologize, rending my garment and tossing ashes on what used to be my hair. **Moderator Instructions** Now that this thread has been moved from MPSIMS to GQ, let’s knock off the accusations of racism as well as discussion if the question is racist. Let’s stick to the genetic results of the hypothetical in the OP. If you have an issue with the question or the poster, take it the Pit. If you want to discuss whether the question as stated is racist, start a new thread in Great Debates. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![john\_b\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@john\_b\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/john_b_2)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-all-the-white-women-in-the-world-disappeared-and-only-white-men-were-left/687576/35 "2014-05-04T17:16:40Z")
I find the topic of race mixing absolutely fascinating in its emotionality, all the moralizing that goes on about it. From a practical standpoint, given all the advances in medical science, won’t couples, in the not too distant future–couples of any race–be able to, to be blunt, choose the race of their children by the manipulation of genes, DNA tweaking? My sense is that in the future the human race in its various incarnations as to skin, hair and eye color, shall be able to breed itself into whatever it wants to look like. In other words, if you’re a mixed or non-white couple and desire a fairer skinned, lighter haired child with Caucasian features, you can have one. If not, you can stick with your own natural genes. What I’m trying to say here, admittedly somewhat clumsily (not being trained in natural science) is that what was once science fiction often becomes science fact (submarines, air travel, from balloons to airplanes, robotic surgery, the Internet and cybertechnology in general), and I see no reason why altering the appearance of the human race should be off limits. To the contrary, I think that if this comes to pass,–and it looks like we’re well more than half-way there–this would solve a great many of the world’s problems. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-all-the-white-women-in-the-world-disappeared-and-only-white-men-were-left/687576/36 "2014-05-04T17:41:52Z")
> [@john\_b\_2](#): > > I find the topic of race mixing absolutely fascinating in its emotionality, all the moralizing that goes on about it. **Moderating** Since neither emotionality nor moralizing is appropriate for General Questions, this is exactly why I am instructing that such discussion be taken elsewhere. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-all-the-white-women-in-the-world-disappeared-and-only-white-men-were-left/687576/37 "2014-05-04T22:14:54Z")
Why is this thread in GQ? What possible factual answer could there be? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-all-the-white-women-in-the-world-disappeared-and-only-white-men-were-left/687576/38 "2014-05-04T22:27:28Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > Why is this thread in GQ? What possible factual answer could there be? A number of factual answers have already been given. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-all-the-white-women-in-the-world-disappeared-and-only-white-men-were-left/687576/39 "2014-05-04T23:34:40Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > We’re talking about ~100 million people going poof Any country that overnight loses 30% of its population, demographics aside, is going to find political party realignment to be a rather minor concern. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-all-the-white-women-in-the-world-disappeared-and-only-white-men-were-left/687576/40 "2014-05-05T01:19:01Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > We’re talking about ~100 million people going poof. With such a huge shortage of women, that’s one option 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-all-the-white-women-in-the-world-disappeared-and-only-white-men-were-left/687576.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-all-the-white-women-in-the-world-disappeared-and-only-white-men-were-left/687576.md?page=3)