Magic dirt

• For the Australian band, see: Magic Dirt

Magic dirt is a sarcastic political term used by right-wing opponents of mass immigration from the Third World to Western countries. Such opponents aver that the wave of mass immigration that started in the 1950s is a form of population replacement that will inevitably lead to white genocide through a slow demographic transformation. The term was popularized by blogger Vox Day in 2015.

The "magic dirt" theory is how migration opponents describe the beliefs of civic nationalists and soft conservatives. These immigration proponents claim that the new arrivals will become good citizens merely by being exposed to the environment of their new homelands. It is presumed that something in the environment, the "magic dirt", will automatically convert these immigrants from their ways of life in harsh Third World lands into respectable Western workers and taxpayers.

Alleged believers in magic dirt

Proponents of "magic dirt" beliefs practice a form of allophilia, the admiration of certain non-Western cultures, and are sometimes accused of having an anti-white bias. They are strong opponents of human biodiversity research. Scientific data showing that non-white populations have different cognitive traits and aptitudes than whites are vehemently rejected by immigration proponents such as Ben Shapiro, David French, president Obama, and P. J. O'Rourke.