Occidental Dissent

In my commentary on the Northwest Front, I alluded to my own preference for a Southern ethnostate, but I didn’t expand much on this idea. The South has several advantages over the Northwest as the location for the White ethnostate. In the present political climate, I won’t argue that a Southern ethnostate is a realistic possibility, as I find that outcome unlikely to materialize. Instead, I will argue solely that it would be easier to carve out an ethnostate in the South than in other parts of the United States.

1.) Racial Consciousness

Southerners are far more racially conscious than Whites in the Pacific Northwest. There are still millions of Americans who cling to traditional racial values. The majority of them live in the South. In Alabama, I would argue that at least 1 out of 2 Whites are racially conscious to some degree. The rest have a high degree of “implict whiteness” that could be activated in the right conditions. More Whites voted against Barack Obama in Alabama than in any other state.

The strongest argument for the South is that racialists have a base in the region. The South is a fertile area for in reach activism. There are millions of Southerners who agree with us on race who have never heard of White Nationalism because of the media blackout. We have more human material to work with. We have more people who are potentially receptive to our message.

In some states, creating a racialist majority is not outside the realm of possibility. David Duke almost won some important races in Louisiana in spite of his Neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan baggage. A cleaner candidate with a professionally run campaign could conceivably become Governor of a Southern state. The Council of Conservative Citizens already have sympathetic elected officials in the Mississippi state legislature.

2.) Political Correctness and Multiculturalism

Political correctness and multiculturalism have invaded Southern college campuses. Every SEC college has an Office of Diversity and Multiculturalism or its equivilant. I would argue though that PC and multiculturalism have weaker roots in the South than any other region. Universities are commonly fortresses of liberalism, but Southern college students tend to be apathetic or apolitical.

It is not uncommon for Southern fraternities to ridicule political correctness. A huge controversy at Ole Miss is brewing right now over being forced to choose a new PC mascot. Contrast Ole Miss with UC San Diego. Outside the liberal college towns, White Southerners are even more likely to hold political correctness and multiculturalism in contempt. It would be easier to overthrow both in the South than in the Northwest.

3.) Liberalism

At least rhetorically, the majority of White Southerners are opposed to liberalism. They voted against Barack Obama and have since flocked into the Tea Party movement. In contrast, the Seattle-Portland urban corridor in the Northwest is a progressive stronghold. Washington and Oregon have voted for the Democratic candidate in every presidential election since 1988.

White Southerners get most of the conservative social issues: abortion, multiculturalism, illegal immigration, affirmative action, welfare, crime. In the South, White Nationalists still have to move the goal posts, but we don’t have to move them as far as in the Northwest.

4.) Culture

As everyone knows, racialism has deeper roots in Southern culture than in any other region of the United States. The South was committed to white supremacy for three centuries. Residual traces of that heritage still exist in the South. These embers could potentially be stirred up into a bonfire again. It would be easier to do this in the South than in the Northwest. We have more material to work with.

5.) Ethnicity

The South is unique in that the great waves of European immigration tended to avoid the region. The vast majority of European immigrants settled in the Midwest, West, and New England. White Southerners have deeper roots in America. The typical Southerner is more likely to be descended (in whole or in part) from the original White settlers.

Millions of White Southerners now identify as “Americans” on the Census. Their families have been in America for so long that they have “gone native” and shed European ethnic affiliations. Southerners are more patriotic because they have more invested in the United States. When your ancestors fought in the American Revolution, Mexican War, Civil War, Spanish-American War, WW1, WW2, and Vietnam, naturally, you feel a greater sense of connection to America, its history and heritage, and its destiny.

I have no doubt that Southerners are more willing to fight for their idea of America. It would be easier to persuade them to fight for a White ethnostate because they have more to lose. After moving from Alabama to Virginia, I can still sense that I am living among my own people. The accents and culture are familar. White Southerners are an ethnic group that occupy a huge contiguous geographic region. Virginians and Alabamians are blood relatives only a few generations removed from a common stock.

In other parts of country, that just isn’t true. Poles live among Irish, Germans, and Italians. Southerners are related by blood, soil, history, climate, and culture. They move less often. We have more in common than the disparate other groups who live elsewhere in the United States. It would be easier to mobilize White Southerners around a common political goal. There are less obstacles in the way.

I love that line from The Good Shepherd where Joseph Palmi says, “Let me ask you something … we Italians, we got our familes, and we got the church; the Irish, they have the homeland; Jews, their tradition; even the niggers, they got their music. What about you people, Mr. Wilson, what do you have?” And Wilson responds, “We have the United States of America. The rest of you are just visiting.”

6.) Tradition

The idea of a White ethnostate originated in the South. Specifically, it can be traced back to the Upper South in states like Virginia and Kentucky where Whites often lamented the presence of blacks and yearned for the day when they would be spirited off to Africa. The history of the American Colonization Society is well known in racialist circles. Maryland and Virginia colonized thousands of their blacks in Liberia. After the Civil War, there was a renewed push to deport blacks to the Belgian Congo led by Senator Morgan of Alabama. Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi pushed the idea in Congress in the 1930s and 1940s.

7.) Actual Examples

The South has a history of ethnic cleansing. Famously, the Five Civilized Tribes were deported to Oklahoma from the Southeast under the Jackson and Van Buren administrations. After the Civil War, the Ozarks region of Arkansas expelled its negro residents and became a de facto White ethnostate. In the Great Migrations, half of the blacks in America relocated to the North rather than endure segregation and white supremacy in the Jim Crow South.

8.) Geographical Proximity

How would Southerners thread the needle of Greg Johnson’s dilemma? You can’t have strong racial consciousness without multiracialism, but you can’t have a White ethnostate by including non-Whites? The answer lies in geographic proximity: if a White ethnostate was created in proximity to a negro ethnostate, it would define its own identity in opposition to its African neighbor, in much the same way that Germany defined itself against France. A Southern ethnostate would prove more enduring.

9.) Separatism and Secession

The South is the only region of America that has ever seceded from the United States, fought a bloody war against the U.S. federal government, and existed as an independent country. The Jim Crow South was essentially granted “home rule” for over half a century. No other region of the United States has such a strong independent sense of identity.

Southerners alone have an ethnic and national identity to fall back on. However attenuated that identity may be, it still exists, and in the right conditions could potentially be reactivated. Secessionist groups already exist in the South. A stronger feeling of anti-government sentiment prevails in the region. Given their heritage, Southerners are more receptive to the idea of secession than other Americans.

10.) Building Blocks

The South has the building blocks of a potential White ethnostate. I’m referring to the White Belts that exist throughout the region. In these areas, Whites are 90% of the population or more, but heavily black areas are nearby and the focal point of racial consciousness. Historically, the White Belts have been notorious for their aversion to blacks.

In the South, racial separatism could take the form of a migration of Whites from the Black Belts to the White Belts. The spine of a Southern ethnostate stretches down the Appalachian Mountains from West Virginia to North Alabama. Large portions of North Alabama, North Georgia, East Tennessee, Western North Carolina, Eastern Kentucky, and West Virginia are relatively White. It would be sensible to salvage these areas. They would be easier for Southerners to relocate to than to the Northwest.

In an upcoming post, I will respond to some of the criticisms of a Southern ethnostate. These include Christianity, nationalism, economic dependence on blacks, the popularity of multiracial college football, devotion to the GOP, and the spread of miscegenation, multiculturalism, and political correctness in the region.

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If Jean found her Lutheran upbringing strict and puritanical, she would absolutely hate life under director Otto Preminger. Preminger was born in Austria to a Jewish family.¹ Although he was not the only major influence in Jean’s life, he was perhaps one of the worst.

Like many people, Preminger would use Jean for his own selfish reasons. Marlon Brando would later say he “wouldn’t work for that bastard, not even for ten million dollars.”² Preminger kept a tight control of Jean’s daily schedule during the filming of Saint Joan, even disallowing her to return home for the holidays. Her schedule was so rigid that it excluded her from most social activity. Jean expressed her sense of alienation, “The shock was greatest because I had divorced myself from life in Iowa. My girlfriends had married and led lives that I no longer had any touch with, and I hadn’t developed a circle of friends in the new life I was projected into at seventeen…”³

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Tim Mak of Frum Forum has a new hit piece on Alternative Right. The article is called “The New Racist Right.” It is standard fare conservative boilerplate.

I would have responded to this trash yesterday, but I am on the road again in Raleigh, NC. Oddly enough, David Frum is also in town. Yesterday, he spoke at a free public lecture at NC State. If I had known about it at the time, I would have shown up and asked him a few uncomfortable questions.

The thrust of Mak’s article is that Alt Right is “racist,” “sexist,” and “reactionary.” Excuse me, I can’t help but laugh here. When my roommate read this piece, his dismissive reaction was “Frum Forum is such a gay ass website.” That concise statement encapsulates everything I had to say.

Mainstream conservatives are just so, well, pathetic. Frum Forum is a retread of mainstream liberal garbage from twenty years ago repackaged as the latest, cutting edge form of “conservatism.” All the terms of abuse used against Alt Right were imported into “conservatism” from the Left. “Conservatism” has been so completely co-opted by its enemies that the term is more or less useless.

I’m increasingly of the view that “conservatives” have a certain look about them. Jim Giles introduced me to this theory. I’ve begun to notice it myself since I have been in Virginia. Conservatives are always smiling. They also look like … there is no polite way to say this … but they usually look like pussies!

Check out Tim Mak. This Beltway hack couldn’t fight his way out of a wet paperbag. These people are going to preserve our culture? Please.

Note: I wrote this article yesterday but passed out before I could post it.

Tags: Alternative Right, Conservatism, David Frum, Richard Spencer, Tik Mak

Is “White Power” really the answer to the survival of our race?

by Jost Turner

“You can buy a White man for a compliment, let alone $60,000 a year!”
These words describe the frustration and disgust of an educator in
the public school system after years of watching the predominantly
White administrators and teachers unquestioningly affirm, expand, and
implement with religious fanaticism, every new dictum of political
correctness — the new State Religion — which slithers down from the
educational hierarchy - regardless of logic or consequence! This is
White Power in action.

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The griefers deserve a bonus for doing their job this week: Steve Sailer is directly discussing Jewish power and their abuse of that power. For years, critics have accused him of deliberately evading the Jewish Question, but that never did make sense to me. I was sure that the man was far too lacking in basic social instincts to strategically avoid ANYTHING.

I’ve been vindicated. He has finally gotten around to it.

He dove right to the crux of the issue: That they’re alien elites. He contrasts their disregard for and even reflexive hatred of the White American nation with the spirit of noblesse oblige manifested by the WASP elites they’ve replaced.

The problem with Sailer is that a part of his bargain with the devil to be an analytical genius was that he be socially retarded. To quote Brimelow from his foreword to America’s Half-Blood Prince:

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Black Barbies cost less than White Barbies.

This is now printed on the front page of the Drudge Report.  As of right now, this news story is one of the most circulated pieces in America. The tone of the story is that this is an unforgivable scandal.

Liberalism is defined by its enshrinement of equality as the highest value in society. As long as our society is a liberal society these kinds of stories will always have this kind of circulation, with the unfortunates caught on the wrong side of this story backing away frantically and apologizing for stating obvious facts.

Moviegoer Stabbed After Asking Woman to Silence Her Phone

At the movies Saturday a White guy asked a black woman to quit talking on her phone. Common courtesy, right? Then two black men stabbed him in the neck with a meat thermometer.

How long are you going to take it, White America?

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You know what?  Greg Johnson is right.  I did go too far in emphasizing the negative. 

One of the things that drives me insane about this movement is the fact that people can’t get along and constantly assume the worst about each other.  Everyone is either a federal agent, or secretly gay, or a Jew, or just in it for the money somehow (as if white nationalism is some great cash cow and we have a problem of too much careerism).  We’ve got enough problems without attacking each other all the time.  I just made that same mistake.  Most everything I have heard about Harold Covington is bad, but I know none of it firsthand and I shouldn’t repeat it.  God knows there are enough lies on the Internet.  So I will assume the best about him until proven otherwise.  

Harold, if you are reading this, I apologize for assuming the worst about you.  Consider me a fan.

The larger point however, is this — there is enough stuff out there to give anyone pause.  Being a political leader means building coalitions, managing personal relationships, and growing the movement.  Can Harold Covington actually do that and build a credible real world movement given his history?  I think that is a fair question.  And I have my doubts.

That said, I think Harold Covington’s books are some of the most important white nationalist literature out there.  I encourage everyone to buy them.  (Covington does allow people to download them for free, which I think effectively rebuts the “he’s in it for the money” charge.  People should buy them so he at least gets something out of his work.) 

What you should do after you read those books — that’s what we’ll be debating in the days to come. 
 

Tags: Harold Covington, northwest homeland, northwest quartet

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Jean Seberg was born on November 13, 1938 in Marshalltown, Iowa. Her family was the descendant of Swedish immigrants whose original name was Carlson. The name was changed to Seberg because “there were already too many Carlsons in the New World.”¹ One of Jean’s childhood friends remembered the Sebergs fondly. “I always had nice feelings about the Sebergs. Of All my friends’ families, Jean’s was the happy one. Ed Seberg was the traditional father figure, solid and dependable. Dorothy was usually bustling about the kitchen, baking bread and cookies.”² This was an ideal existence in a now vanished White America. It was different and isolated from most of the world.

The Seberg household was devoutly Lutheran, “attending church every Sunday, without fail; at home, grace preceded each meal.”³ The children were often sent to Bible study camps during the summer. After being confirmed in the Lutheran church, Jean became a Sunday school teacher in 1952.^{4 5} Jean would spend the rest of her life doing good deeds and attempting to redeem herself in the eyes of those around her. Perhaps this was the natural conclusion of a small child being taught she was a born-sinner who could only be saved by divine intervention. In her adult life she had less correspondence with Lutheran church leaders and more with the local Rabbi, Sol Serber.

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Tags: Anti-Racism, Jean Seberg, liberal, race traitor

Harold Covington has the unique distinction of pissing off just about every other person in the entire movement, and this is relevant to his political ambitions. Where there is smoke, there’s generally fire, and if nothing else, Covington’s political skills are questionable if he’s managed to isolate himself this way.  This movement has a surplus of infighting, petty feuds, and general nonsense, so this may not be his fault. Nontheless, this situation exists.

That said, let’s give the man some credit.  Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, and the Northwest Quartet is a noteworthy political and artistic achievement.  Many white nationalists got their start reading “The Turner Diaries,” which is remarkable because as a book, it, well, sucks.  (To be fair, it was a compilation of self contained articles for a magazine, which explains its dubious literary quality.)  In contrast, the Quartet has memorable characters, witty dialogue, and a great story.  The man can write.  Somehow, in the middle of all this, he also gives what I regard as some as excellent political advice for our movement.

First and foremost, the Quartet is Covington’s attempt to show what a successful endgame for white nationalism would actually look like.  Amidst all the sturm und drang within this series of tubes, few have outlined what the end game for all of this actually is.  The Northwest American Republic shows what an ethnostate in the real world could be.  The white republic he portrays is the kind of organizing myth that the movement needs.

Second, Covington is absolutely right when he states that the United States of America cannot be saved, and we must work on developing a secessionist movement if we are to secure a living space.  In an age when mainstream politicians casually mention independence for states, when state legislatures are passing sovereignty resolutions all over the country, and when the decline of the dollar is becoming an ever present reality, this does not seem unrealistic.

Third, Covington’s political vision, within the books anyway, is fairly realistic.  The political situation in his alternate universe is simply the present with every negative development accelerated.  Even his more outlandish scenarios (such as a U.S. Government that kidnaps white children raised by politically incorrect parents) has a grain of truth and is based on things that are happening right now.  He is also right about the role of religion in our movement, and the need for everyone to put their race first and leave the bickering about Christianity vs. Odinism vs. National Socialism or what have you until after liberation. 

Finally, and most importantly, as Greg Johnson noted, you can’t read these books without becoming more serious about the struggle.  We could use a “General Order Number 10″ (no alcohol) right now.  If WN’s donated half — half! — of what they spend on beer and cigarettes to organizations like the New Century Foundation, The Occidental Quarterly, or other organizations, it would make a dramatic difference.  Covington is absolutely right when he states that geographic concentration of our activists would allow us to get much more accomplished, and that we need to get off the internet and interacting with people in the real world.  People discuss Pioneer Little Europe’s all the time — it’s time to start actually building them.  This requires sacrifice and commitment but less than one might actually think.  It does not mean taking a vow of poverty — it means actually seriously working with movement activists to build local institutions, and relocating if necessary to make it happen.  For younger folks, this is far easier than for people with families.
 
What does the “Old Man” get wrong?  As I see it, three things. 

First, he never addresses Hunter’s objection anywhere in the book.  The Northwest has no identity or tradition of white nationalism that Covington’s Party could conceivably appeal to.  Covington talks of a legacy of heroes like Pastor Richard Butler or Bob Matthews, but I doubt anyone in Washington or Oregon has even heard of these people, and would probably hate them if they did. 

This is the great debate, which I go back and forth myself on, and will return to in later posts.  Should WN’s try to evolve within an existing subculture and make “implicit” whiteness explicit?  Or should they try to create something totally new where nothing has existed before?  I learn towards the former (i.e. let’s start in the South) but Covington doesn’t even address the question.  How 30,000 WN’s showing up in the Northwest would somehow spark an awakening among a population not receptive to it is beyond me.  Certainly, it would build a thriving subculture, but I don’t think Seattle would suddenly switch to voting for the Northwest Front instead of the Democrats.

Second, the references to himself and his criticisms of other leaders, notably in “The Hill of the Ravens,” takes away from the books.  Attacking William Pierce or David Duke or whoever else is pointless and inappropriate.  It doesn’t matter if he’s right or wrong.  He should be the bigger man, lay out his vision, and challenge people to believe in it.

The third charge is related.  Covington puts himself in the book in an obnoxious and clumsy way.  He clearly sees himself as the leader of this movement in the real world.  It is somewhat reminiscent of the movie Reds in which the skillful writer Jack Reed tries to transition from writing about Communist revolution to actually organizing Communist revolution, with disastrous results. 

Even if, by some monumental injustice, everything said about Harold Covington is a horrible lie, it is simply an unfortunate fact that his credibility within the movement has suffered and this hurts his ability to organize such a movement in the real world.  This may be a horrible fate for an honorable man or it may be merited.   If Covington really believes in this vision, his books will do more to create such a movement than any personal attempt by him to lead it.  If he dedicates himself to those, his reputation — and the chances that such a movement might actually take shape with new leadership — will only improve. 

Besides, I want to read more and there is plenty of room for expansion.  My personal preference would be for him to write an entire book about O.C. Oglevy and the Hayden Lake Flying Column, which waged the war with unrestrained brutality and actually had to be restrained by the Party.  The effect of unrestrained hate and rage (even in a good cause) and its effect on people would be a great theme for him to work with.

Harold Covington’s work, whatever my disagreements with it, is worth taking seriously. Somewhere in Washington is a widely hated man who nonetheless has penned the closest thing to a modern mythology for white nationalism.  I recognize his faults, but I salute this achievement and the man who did it.  For those who cannot, I urge them to make their own attempt.

Tags: ethnostate, Harold Covington, northwest quartet, northwest republic