Serious riots broke out in Los Angeles in the second week of June 2025. Supposedly triggered by ICE agents apprehending illegal immigrants, they were, in reality, set off by their arresting extremely dangerous Hispanic criminals, quite independent of their immigration status.

Protests, effectively encouraged by Hispanic Democrat local councillors and other ethnic activists, promptly broke out; police cars were set on fire, rocks were thrown at them from bridges, and public buildings were torched. The left claimed that Trump, who sent in the National Guard to quell the disorder because the state’s Democrat governor had abjectly failed to, incited these riots by enforcing the law and, of course, made them worse by trying to quell them.

I am afraid, in a sense, the leftist media are correct, though, naturally, they don’t want to admit why they are correct. Conservative media outlets have ridiculed the way in which rioters strongly object to being returned to Mexico yet wave Mexican flags and burn the Stars and Stripes. If they think this is a contradiction, then they are misguided. They are not looking at what is happening through the correct lens: the lens of evolutionary psychology; the idea that humans are, in essence, an advanced form of ape.

With this in mind, what is happening is Los Angeles starts to make sense fairly quickly. At the most basic level, chimpanzees operate in troupes — in essence, small tribes — who are held together by relatively recent common ancestry. Numerous experiments have shown that humans and animals can discern genetic similarity and are more likely to cooperate with the genetically similar because doing so raises their “inclusive fitness;” it permits them to indirectly pass on more of their genes if their kin flourish. An ethnic group is a highly extended tribe and a race is a number of related ethnic groups; a highly extended ethnic group. Although the word “Hispanic” is confusing — it sometimes refers to people whose native language is Spanish even if they are completely White — in general it refers to people from Central and South America. They range from totally European to totally Native American. On average, however, they are a “cline” — a mixture of two races; groups genetically separated for many thousands of years — between European and Native American. As Genetic Similarity Theory predicts, they are generally sexually attracted to each other, so we have the Hispanic Cline and they are, on average, half-European and half-Native American.

Due to a combination of factors — proximity to Mexico, the fact that California was briefly part of Mexico, Woke California’s status as a “Sanctuary State” and LA’s as a “Sanctuary City” which is prepared to welcome illegal immigrants — Mexicans have, in effect, established enclaves of the Mexican Nation within Los Angeles. Returning to our discussion of chimpanzees, it is basic, in terms of evolutionary psychology, that you establish territory. The more territory you control then the more access to resources — to food of various kinds — you have and, so, the more likely are to out-compete other troupes, leading to the triumph of your genes. Also (all else being equal), the larger your group is then the more likely you are to out-compete your rivals in wars over territory.

If you are, as an individual, not at the top of your pack hierarchy in the territory that you hold, then you often gang together with other middle-ranking males and you strive outwards to take the territory, and the females, of another group; to expand your group’s territory. Naturally, if the other group returns you to your territory then you are a failure and you will fear having few resources, which, in our prehistoric polygamous mating systems in which females sexually select for status, means that you don’t pass on your genes. So, you must fight to maintain the territory you have eked out and you must fight to maintain your numbers. Trump symbolises the most warlike Europeans — the ethnic enemy of all the different ethnic groups that have come to occupy the  U.S.  So, of course, his going into “Mexican” territory is going to provoke a violent reaction.

That these rioters are patriotically Mexican but hate America and don’t want to return to Mexico is no more a contradiction than settler Americans disliking Native American tribes, not wanting to return to England, and yet seeing themselves as truest form of Anglo-Saxon. You can come up, to solve your cognitive dissonance, with reasons why your country is poor and you are relatively poor and have had to leave: God is punishing our country for its decadence, God has called me to expand his holy nation or even “We Native Americans must take the land back from the Europeans and especially California as it was once part of Mexico.” Their low average IQ will not be part of their explanation for why their country is poor.

From an evolutionary perspective, it is groups who are high in positive and negative ethnocentrism who tend to triumph. Los Angeles has been invaded, in part, because the Europeans were low in negative ethnocentrism. They were individualists who covertly played for status by signalling their concern with the marginalised and runaway virtue-signalling led to their favouring foreigners over their own. They identify with the genetically dissimilar as this allows them to collaborate better with foreigners and treasonously gain power over their own people, as the California governor has. Typically leftist, they are high in Neuroticism and so, bubbling with resentment, they want to see everything which symbolises power — for which they are so ravenous — torn down.

So, Los Angeles becomes a sanctuary city and Mexicans are more likely to take it over if they feel love for their own people and despise the Europeans: hence, they wave Mexican flags and burn American ones, despite not wanting to return to Mexico. Those who see this as a contradiction are missing the point. They must examine the situation via evolutionary psychology.

I suspect that what is happening in Los Angeles is a harbinger of the future: the South Africanization of the United States; its violent break up along ethnic lines as non-Europeans carve out more and more territory.