Anyway, as noted by E.Todd, this "blame the darkies" rhetoric that was one of the subtle subtexts of N.Sarkozy's campaign, hasn't really got much traction in the French population, at least in the youngest and poorest (often the same) part: not too many financiers and other Ponzi pyramid peddlers in the derelict suburbs around the French cities.
In the longer run, I wonder what the effects of this French "demographic exception" will be: France seems to be the only EU country close to the replacement rate... Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.
