white ethnostate
{{Short description|State whose citizenry is limited to White people}}
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A white ethnostate is a proposed type of state in which residence and citizenship would be limited to whites.
In the United States, proposals for the establishment of such a state are advanced by white supremacist and white separatist factions such as Ku Klux Klansmen and Neo-Nazis. Some of these factions claim that a certain part of the country should have a white majority and other factions claim that the entire country should have a white majority.{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/neo-nazi-matthew-heimbach-bogus-white-ethnostate_us_5a745c5fe4b01ce33eb1d720|title=The Neo-Nazi Has No Clothes: In Search Of Matt Heimbach's Bogus 'White Ethnostate'|first=Caitlin|last=Dickson|date=2 February 2018|via=Huff Post}}{{cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-spencers-israeli-ethno-state-is-a-neo-nazi-s-nightmare-1.5460052|title=Opinion Richard Spencers Israeli Ethno-state Is a neo-Nazi's Nightmare|first=David|last=Rosenberg|date=24 October 2017|newspaper=Haaretz}}
Proposed white ethnostates
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File:A rural scene in the beautiful Ozarks (80267).jpg. A number of white separatists are proposing to create a white ethnostate in this region of the central United States.]]
Historically, as well as in modern times, the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana) has been proposed by many white supremacists as a location for the establishment of a white ethnostate. This Northwest Territorial Imperative was promoted by Richard Girnt Butler, Robert Miles, Robert Jay Mathews, David Lane, and Harold Covington, alongside the white supremacist terrorist organization The Order, the Neo-Nazi Christian Identity organization Aryan Nations, the white power skinhead group Volksfront, and the Northwest Front, among others. The Northwest Territorial Imperative also has loose overlap with the Cascadia independence movement, which also seeks to create an independent republic between the Northwest and parts of Northern California in the United States and British Columbia in Canada, though many Cascadian groups specifically reject white nationalist ideologies.{{cite web |title=Diversity Inclusion Policy |url=https://www.cascadianow.org/diversity-inclusion-policy |website=Cascadia Now! |access-date=6 March 2025}}{{cite book|pages=122–123|year=2014|title=Allegiance to Liberty: The Changing Face of Patriots, Militias, and Political Violence in America|publisher=Praeger|author=Barry J. Balleck|isbn=978-1440830952|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E_k7BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA122|access-date=18 April 2018}}{{cite book|last1=Buck|first1=Christopher|title=Religious myths and visions of America : how minority faiths redefined America's world role|date=2009|publisher=Praeger|location=Westport, Conn.|isbn=978-0313359590|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E8Cd5sfApM4C&pg=PA114|access-date=18 April 2018|pages=114–115}} Some in the far-right use the term American Redoubt to describe a similar migration to the Northwestern United States.{{Cite web|url=https://www.inlander.com/Bloglander/archives/2018/04/26/does-this-anti-sodomite-slavery-defending-holocaust-denying-idaho-pastor-lead-a-hate-group|title=Does this anti-"sodomite," slavery-defending, Holocaust-denying Idaho pastor lead a hate group?|first=Daniel|last=Walters|website=Inlander}}
Other areas have been looked into as sites for a potential white ethnostate by certain groups. Most notably, the South has been proposed as a white ethnostate by the self-proclaimed "Southern Nationalist" League of the South (LS) due to the region's history of secessionism and its de facto independence as the Confederate States of America (1861–1865). The Republic of Florida Militia also has fought for the creation of a white ethnostate in Florida.{{cn|date=April 2025}}
Another white ethnostate has been proposed by Billy Roper's Shield Wall Network (SWN), a neo-Nazi organization based in Mountain View, Arkansas. It seeks to establish a white ethnostate in the Ozark region and is affiliated with other separatist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK); the Knights Party, located near Harrison, Arkansas; the League of the South (LS); and the National Socialist Movement (NSM), a member of the now-defunct Nationalist Front.{{Cite web|url=https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/shield-wall-network-swn|title=Shield Wall Network (SWN)|website=Anti-Defamation League}} Conversely, the Ozarks have been a "hotbed" for adherents of the Christian Identity movement, including the Church of Israel and various members of the Christian Patriot movement who have set up paramilitary training camps to prepare for a coming Armageddon.{{cite web|url=https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/assets/pdf/combating-hate/Gayman-Dan-EIA-1.pdf |access-date=2023-10-23| title=Dan Gayman}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.resist.com/Instauration/OtherPubs-20120723/SilentBrotherhood.pdf |title=The Silent Brotherhood |access-date=2018-11-23 |archive-date=2018-12-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215020345/https://www.resist.com/Instauration/OtherPubs-20120723/SilentBrotherhood.pdf |url-status=dead }}
See also
- Ethnocracy
- Ethnonationalism
- Fourteen Words
- Fourth Reich
- Harold Covington
- Identitarianism
- Jamel, Germany, a village known to be heavily populated with neo-Nazis.{{cite news |last=Popp |first=Maximilian |date=3 January 2011 |title=The Village Where the Neo-Nazis Rule |work=der Spiegel |url=https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/right-wing-extremism-the-village-where-the-neo-nazis-rule-a-737471.html |access-date=22 April 2020}}
- National redoubt
- Orania
- Racial nationalism
- Racial segregation
- Volkstaat
- White flight
- White genocide conspiracy theory
- White nationalism
- White supremacy
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