replacement is not the same as tfr. after the baby boom when 3.5 million white kids were born each year it was normal for birthrates to fall and later return to a normal trend, the problem is that boomers being the worthless shits they are had 1.7-2.7 million kids a year (for an average of about 2.3 million) from the time the first boomer turned 18 in 1964 to the time more than 95% of boomer women had hit menopause around 2010, which tanked the long term white growth rate. for brownoids it's like "they were having 7 kids and now they're only having 2.1!" which translates into they were having 20 million kids 30 years ago and now it's only 19 million,
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