Why There are No White Nationalists

Michael Anissimov Blocked Unblock Follow Following Jun 24, 2016

The Grand Tetons, located in one of the few states with over 90% Whites.

“White nationalists” are a boogeyman that doesn’t exist, except for maybe Harold Covington. Why is that? Because even the most ardent white racialists are not willing to move or relocate to nearly-all-white areas and perform the hard work of proto-nation building and consolidation. They prefer more comfortable areas with preexisting healthy economies that are already multiracial. Since these areas will never become all white, and nearly all “white racialists” are unwilling to move, there is no white nationalism. White nationalism is a meme that doesn’t exist in real life and is not likely to for the foreseeable future. Even if Trump were President-for-life, no one living in non-White states would ever experience anything remotely like White nationhood.

Say you have a guy who calls himself a “white nationalist living in Louisiana”. Louisiana is 59.3% White. This is like a Mexican nationalist living in the United States, he is not really a Mexican nationalist so much as a non-conformist living in a foreign land. If he were a Mexican nationalist he would be living in Mexico, surrounded by Mexicans, contributing to Mexican civilization. In America he is a hopeless fish out of water, not a Mexican nationalist. He is contributing to a state not composed of his people.

Any “white nationalist” living in a multiracial, multicultural state is giving his tax dollars and his human capital to a multiracial society. If he were a white nationalist, he would immediately move to somewhere that is 90 percent or more White, such as eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, northern Idaho, western Montana, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Vermont, New Hampshire, or Maine. If he prefers not to do this, he is not practicing white nationalism, he is practicing white racialism.

Texas is one of the worst offenders. It is filled with many who consider themselves white racialists or even white nationalists but the state is 54.7 percent non-White. The “white nationalism” of white Texans is nothing more than an eccentric affectation and an imaginary state of being. Texas is already a de facto adjunct of Mexico. There is nothing remotely white about it. It is filled with whites who wouldn’t know what to do with themselves outside the state boundaries of Texas. But they like the idea of thinking of themselves as white nationalist Confederates, so they play make-believe. This is amusing but it is not any kind of activity that would lead to a white state on American soil.

Consider the entire South. About 57 percent of all US Blacks live in the South, which adds up to about 40 million people. Those blacks are not going anywhere. They are blended in throughout nearly the entire South. They are not going to be subjugated or enslaved by anybody. No “white nationalism” can exist in a region that is inhabited by 40 million Blacks, that is just unrealistic. But many Southerners are soaked in nostalgia and like to reminisce about the days when Whites were on top there. Those days are long gone but white racialists refuse to accept it. They prefer to live in a fantasy world where they think the South can somehow be restored to its pre-Civil War white nationalist state. It cannot.

If Whites really wanted their own country on American soil, they would simply move to a place that is already nearly all White and build an economy there. This could be done even despite the Civil Rights Act being law. Most non-Whites have absolutely no interest in living in areas that are 95 percent White and dominated by White racialists. This is clearly evident because there are Idaho counties that have been 94 percent White or greater for the entirety of their existence, with Native Americans making up 3 percent, biracial inhabitants making up roughly 2 percent, and actual non-White, non-Natives making up scarcely over a single percent. This is extremely White. But the motivation among White racialists to move to such places is clearly absent, because they are not growing. In fact they are shrinking.

“White nationalism” in the United States today is blocked by two distinct phenomena; the bystander effect, where everyone expects someone else to do it first; and the fear effect, where people are afraid the federal government will come down on them if they try to racially consolidate in a specific area. It seems very unlikely these will ever be overcome, so white nationalism remains nothing but a meme. No one wants to be the first person to move to an all-White area, they want others to do the hard work for them first. Since this sentiment is universal among so-called “white nationalists,” no movement takes place and the movement is not a movement at all, it is a joke. There is not even the precommitment to move or the open declaration of intent to move, there is nothing.

The second phenomenon, the fear effect, is that any Whites who attempt to consolidate will be met with force like that which was displayed at Waco, Texas in 1993 when the federal government burned over 50 people alive, including women and children. But the fear effect is unfounded because there are already isolated towns that are 100 percent White that suffer no reprisals. If these towns were to be punished, what would that even look like? Would the federal government deploy a SWAT team there just to shoot townspeople at random on their weekly visit to the grocery store? Would they burn down all the houses once the all-White town gained a certain threshold level of population? Such a scenario seems highly dubious. The only thing holding back Whites from consolidating is fear of the unknown, not reprisal by the federal government. White nationalists are afraid of the hard work needed to build an economy in an isolated place from scratch. So they live in parts of the country that are 80 percent White — at most— and enjoy the salaries that come from experiencing life in an area with a pre-established economy.

White nationalism doesn’t work that way. Any people hoping to enjoy the benefits of high social trust and mutually-reinforcing economic activity will need to take the risk of moving to an area that has only a very rudimentary economy, and build it up from there. Many have the wealth but not the will. The far northeastern states are not ideal because their proximity to major metropolitan areas will make them refugee zones in the instance of a major disaster like EMP, but the Pacific Northwest is home to vast tracts of land that are just waiting to be exploited. White nationalists who wish to make white nationalism more than just a meme will be forced to relocate to these areas whether they are their first choice to live in or not. Only by creating sufficient regional economic and cultural autonomy combined with ideological zealousness and spatial isolation from preexisting large populations can any new proto-society even be formed. Until then, white nationalism is just a preoccupation or idea of the political fringe. The future of “white nationalists,” just like everyone else, will only be the following: