Virginia Abernethy

Professor (ret.) Dr. Virginia Deane Abernethy

Virginia Deane Abernethy (born 1934) is an American professor emerita of psychiatry and anthropology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She has published research on population demography and immigration. She has been on Editorial Advisory Board of The Occidental Quarterly and The Occidental Observer. In 2012, she ran for Vice President of the United States alongside Merlin Miller for the American Freedom Party. Abernethy has rejected allegation she is a "white supremacist", describing herself as a white separatist.

Life

Virginia Deane Abernethy was born in Cuba to American parents in 1934. She was brought up in Argentina and the New York town, being educated at New York’s Riverdale Country faculty. She received a B.A. from Wellesley school, an M.B.A. from Commodore Vanderbilt University, and Ph.D. from the Social Relations Department at Harvard University in 1970.

"Eclectic" describes better than any degree, book, or article the news commentary on this website. Its origin could well be history lessons absorbed at my first school, Northlands, the highly regarded British Girls School in Olivos, Buenos Aires. Afternoon classes taught in Spanish featured Las Malvinas, islands known in morning classes as The Falklands. Is this discrepancy not a fine introduction to self-interest, truth, and power? Born in Cuba and raised there, Argentina, and New York City, I retired as Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry (Anthropology) at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. I remain an active Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science [AAAS]. For ten years until 1999 I edited the academic journal, Population and Environment. Publications include Population Pressure and Cultural Adjustment, which introduced the "fertility opportunity hypothesis"; Population Politics, which updates the hypothesis and adds the bulk of supporting data; and academic and popular articles. Harvard University [PhD], Vanderbilt University [MBA], Wellesley College [B.A.], Riverdale Country School, P.S. 81, and Northlands deserve due credit but are not responsible for anything here to which they would object. My business as a scientist is to notice patterns that may lead, eventually, to a hypothesis. The fertility opportunity hypothesis is the result of noticing that people welcome a larger family size when economic opportunity appears to be expanding. On the contrary, perception of stagnant, contracting, or very competitive economic conditions leads to limiting family size. Much cross-cultural and historic data support this explanation of causality. For example, the average native-born American perceives a competitive economic climate within which prospects have been declining for approximately 30 years. Therefore the hypothesis predicts that Americans should prefer a small family size. In fact, white women average well below two children each and black women barely more, having approximately replacement level fertility [2.1 children per woman]. Only immigrants from third world societies see American jobs, free education, healthcare, and the social safety net as an improvement over earlier expectations. The fertility opportunity hypothesis predicts that they will have more children than native-born Americans and more, even, than compatriots who remain at home. Fertility rates of Mexican immigrants to the United States have been well studied and, if fact, the average family size is three or four children, much larger than Americans and larger than compatriots remaining in Mexico. Interests include geopolitics, especially the domestic and world economy and immigration policy. Debates on these issues are usually enjoyable. Gentleman William Buckley made memorable an appearance on "Firing Line" where I debated the late Robert Bartley, open-borders advocate and then-editor of the Wall Street Journal. Volunteer activities are principally Board membership for the 501(c)3 organizations, Population-Environment Balance and Carrying Capacity Network. I am on the Editorial Advisory Board of The Occidental Quarterly and The Occidental Observer. In desultory fashion, I "bird" and garden, mostly taking time to admire the beauty and marvel of Nature.

Abernethy joined the Board of Directors of the American Third Position Party in 2011, and ran as the party's vice presidential nominee in 2012, alongside presidential candidate Merlin Miller. However, party activist and West Virginia House of Delegates candidate Harry Bertram, and not Abernethy, appeared as the party's vice presidential candidate in Colorado and New Jersey; Abernethy did appear on the ballot in Tennessee. The ticket qualified for the ballot in Colorado, where it received 250 votes, New Jersey, where it received 625 votes,, and Tennessee, where it received 1,737 votes.

As a faculty member, retired of psychological medicine and social science at Commodore Vanderbilt University, Virginia Abernethy pushes repulsive, race-based politics from behind an educational veneer. She includes a long history of alliances with teams like the racist organization yank Third Position (renamed the yank terrorist organization in 2013) and the white nationalist Council of Conservative voters (CCC). Additionally, she was president in two hundred1 of the planning board pushing Arizona’s anti-immigrant Proposition 200, aka shield Arizona currently. In a letter to The Washington Times revealed on Sep thirty, 2004, she rejected their coverage of her as a “self-described ‘racial separatist’,” preferring “ethnic separatist.” The Anti-Defamation League in 2012 represented her as being a “white exponent.” On June 29, 2011, the Yankee Third Position (now the Yankee Freedom Party), a whites-only party, declared that she had joined their board of administrators. She was later appointed as their vice-presidential poll. Abernethy ran in the election for VP of the U.S. in 2012 because the campaigner of Merlin Miller, World Health Organization, ran for president within the 2012 U.S. presidential election, gaining a total of twelve,900 votes across the country.

External links

• Dr. Virginia Abernethy joins American Third Position Board of Directors
• Dr. Virginia Abernethy’s Response to USA Today article
• Optimism and Overpopulation
• Immigration and the Nation’s Health