Why Blue States Aren’t Having Babies, by Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson, a senior contributor for The Daily Signal, is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and host of “The Victor Davis Hanson Show.” His website, The Blade of Perseus, features columns, lectures, and exclusive content for subscribers. Contact him at authorvdh@gmail.com.

On this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc have a fertile discussion on why blue states have a lower birth rate than red states.

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to VDH’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.

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SAMI WINC: The last symptom that we want to talk about today, Victor, is fertility. And we know that the university and the rhetoric in the United States is—

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Yes, and climate too.

WINC: Yeah, because of climate, we don’t want to have children.

HANSON: Didn’t [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] say that?

WINC: AOC said that the world was going to end in like 10 years or something.” I don’t know what it was. Who listens to her?

HANSON: She said she wasn’t going to have kids and have more AOCs, and I thought, “Promises, promises.” [Editor’s Note: Rep. Ocasio-Cortez said it is a “legitimate question” to ask if it’s OK to have children due to the climate crisis. She did not rule out having children of her own.] That’s a problem. I’m not just being in jest. If you look at fertility in the 20 so-called blue states, it is about one point. We average everybody about 1.73. Just in 1999, we were 2.1. I’m talking about people who were born in the United States, the fertility rate. It was about 1.71. But in blue states, it’s about 1.4. And in red states, about 2.1. ….

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SAMI WINC: The last symptom that we want to talk about today, Victor, is fertility. And we know that the university and the rhetoric in the United States is—

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Yes, and climate too.

WINC: Yeah, because of climate, we don’t want to have children.

HANSON: Didn’t [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] say that?

WINC: AOC said that the world was going to end in like 10 years or something.” I don’t know what it was. Who listens to her?

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Why Blue States Aren’t Having Babies, by Victor Davis Hanson

Pressured Into a Chemical Abortion, She Found Help at a Pregnancy Center, by Isabella Childs

Pope Leo: Repent Sins, Bear Witness, Foster Christian Unity, by Dr. Jeff Mirus

By Victor Davis Hanson, The Daily Signal, November 29, 2025

SAMI WINC: The last symptom that we want to talk about today, Victor, is fertility. And we know that the university and the rhetoric in the United States is—

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Yes, and climate too.

WINC: Yeah, because of climate, we don’t want to have children.

HANSON: Didn’t [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] say that?

WINC: AOC said that the world was going to end in like 10 years or something.” I don’t know what it was. Who listens to her?

Continue reading >>>>>>>>>>>

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