Hermann Knackfuß – Alanics and Suevians coming into Spain (Migration period). Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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The Lost Opportunity for the Trump Administration
Like many of you, I have been pleasantly surprised at the great strides that the Trump Administration has been making on the domestic policy front. It’s obvious to me that there are many solid people working for the president who understands what is at stake and are indeed eager to use federal power to crush the Left and advance the interests of Trump’s white voter base in concrete ways. I’m grateful for the things that they have accomplished.
Throughout 2025, I was cautiously optimistic that this administration could serve as an effective vehicle for White Identity Politics, and that the Republican Party could get us most of the way toward victory. My hope was that a successful second Trump administration would launch an era of Republican dominance at the federal level. I thought serious men and women who remembered the many disasters of the Biden-Harris regime and understood what the Left will surely do should they regain power would keep things on track and avoid taking stupid actions that could shatter the MAGA National Populist coalition. A secure border and a decade of consistent deportations combined with measures to encourage migrants to leave would buy white people time demographically. Perhaps, I reasoned, California and some of the West Coast states would get fed up and decide to go their own way, which might then lead to New York and New England doing the same. Should that occur, other Left-wingers and many non-whites would no doubt move to the seceding states, while plenty of non-Leftist whites would relocate to the interior.
This best-case scenario would have gotten us a supermajority white country in which there was no clear path for the Left to retake power and re-open the borders. White Americans would be able keep the flag as well as most of our land area and natural resources. Such a state would be more than capable of economic success and of defending itself militarily.
As victories piled up and the Overton window shifted rightward, policies that could not be enacted now- like a total immigration moratorium or a repeal of Civil Rights legislation or even Constitutional changes—might become realistic, especially with plenty of Democrat-controlled states out of the way.
And while there would still have been work for White Nationalists to do, our task would certainly have been far easier.
However, we must accept that this best-case scenario is not going to happen. Quite frankly, it was wishful thinking in the first place, with so many unpredictable things needing to happen. The administration’s foreign policy is every bit as foolish and infuriating as its domestic policy is encouraging, and Trump has shattered his coalition by going to war with Iran. The poll numbers are dreadful, and the future looks bleak for the Republicans at the federal level. It appears as though all of the positive things that have been accomplished will soon be reversed.
The prospect of a Democrat takeover at the federal level is especially alarming because it likely spells the end of America as a white majority state. The waves of immigration, both legal and illegal, that will surely follow a Republican defeat in 2028 could well prove impossible for a Republican president to reverse before the date when whites drop below fifty percent of the population, and that’s if another Republican can even get elected in the near future. The less white America gets, the less likely a Republican resurgence at the federal level becomes.
I completely reject the idea that a future Democrat victory means that whites in America are “doomed” and the idea that Trump provided the “last chance” for us to secure a future for our race on this continent. However, I do believe that a period of uninterrupted Republican dominance that lasts several election cycles did represent the last chance for whites to keep majority status within the continental United States.
The Great White Migration
With this in mind, it is necessary to consider what needs to be done before we become a minority. I have been pondering this for several years and was very glad to read Derek Stark’s article advocating for a “Great White Migration” of racially conscious whites to areas where we have a realistic shot of competing for political power and electing ideologically aligned candidates. I completely agree with Stark’s analysis. Even if whites aren’t yet a minority, whites who wish to engage in White Identity Politics certainly are. Stark cited an AI estimate of 100,000 White Nationalists living in the United States right now. So, let’s say there are 100,000 available White Nationalist votes. We should want to allocate those votes in a way that will give us the maximum amount of influence. And by strategically choosing where to live, we can do exactly that.
If whites are going to be a minority, we must think like minorities do. One of the ways minorities can exercise disproportionate influence is by intentionally choosing to live around other members of their group. This facilitates political representation and control of territory. The Muslim call to prayer is broadcast five times a day in Dearborn, Michigan because large numbers of Muslims settled there. If the Dearborn Muslims had settled randomly across the country, there would be no call to prayer in Dearborn, and Palestinian Rashida Tlaib would not be sitting in Congress. Because so many blacks live together in urban neighborhoods, there are more black politicians serving in local, state, and federal government than there would be if blacks composed exactly thirteen percent of every neighborhood. Orthodox Jews now dominate Lakewood, New Jersey because they moved there strategically. 100,000 White Nationalists could flex some serious political muscle if we behave similarly.
This topic is particularly interesting and relevant to me because I recently moved to a different state, in part because I wanted to live somewhere where I think our ideas have a better chance to win in the political arena. Thus, I am not encouraging any of you to do something that I have not already done myself. Because I am so enthusiastic about the Great White Migration concept, I hope to offer two contributions to the discussion. First, I have made a list of states where I believe White Nationalists have the best shot to impact state and local elections. Secondly, I have prepared a rebuttal to what I anticipate will be a common criticism of the idea: that it amounts to a surrender of territory and is nothing more than another form of “White Flight.”
Where Should We Go?
First, we need to decide which parts of the country make the most sense as a destination, and future homeland, for White Nationalists. I believe there are four main characteristics that should be taken into account in evaluating a state for this purpose, though readers are more than welcome to suggest more.
The most critical thing to consider is the racial composition of the state. We desire not only to live among our own people, but to live only among our own people. It makes no sense to move somewhere where we would be a minority or nearly so. It should go without saying that this rules out states like California, New York, and New Jersey. Less obviously, there are several southern states with a reputation for being “based” that are not ideal choices because of their large black populations. This category includes states like Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana.
Next, we need to focus on population size. Small states are better choices due to our limited numbers. It takes fewer of us to make an impact somewhere small. Thus, even though Ohio and Missouri are red states that are more than seventy percent white as of the 2020 census, it makes more sense to go to West Virginia and Arkansas if we want our guys to have a greater say in the state legislature.
After that, we need to think about the political outlook of each state. While we all know that the GOP has plenty of problems, it’s indisputable that white Republican voters are more sensible on issues of race than white Democrat voters are. Even if enough of us moved to somewhere like Oregon or Washington that we became a powerful faction in the state Republican party, it wouldn’t do much good if our candidates always lost to the Democrats in general elections.
Finally, it would be preferable to have a presence in states that border each other. Should there be a secession or National Divorce scenario in the future, having borders with allies could be indispensable. A Union of North and South Dakota seemingly has a better chance to survive than an independent New Hampshire.
Using data from the most recent (2020) US census and this analysis of the white vote in every state in the 2024 Presidential election, I narrowed it down to six states which had fewer than five million inhabitants, a non-Hispanic white population above seventy-five percent, and more than sixty percent of its whites voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election. These six states are Kentucky, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, West Virginia, and Wyoming. Of the six, West Virginia and Wyoming are the two whitest, and Wyoming and North Dakota are the two smallest. Kentucky is by far the largest, and Idaho is the least white, though still above seventy-five percent. Each state on the list borders one other state on the list.
Therefore, at the state level, Wyoming, West Virginia, and North Dakota seem to be the best places for White Nationalists to move to in order to have the greatest influence on elections, followed by South Dakota, Idaho, and Kentucky. However, I am sure there are specific regions and electoral districts within other states that would be excellent choices. Southwestern Virginia and the white counties of the Deep South immediately come to mind.
Wouldn’t this Just be Retreating?
I anticipate that some readers will instinctively object to this idea on the grounds that a White Nationalist migration to one or a few specific states amounts to a retreat or a surrender of territory. One might reasonably wonder if this is a call for whites to abandon the rest of the country to the Left and to non-white migrants. My answer is that an intentional migration would not be a loss of territory, but a gain of territory, and that gaining power in a few small states first could propel white advocates to success in larger ones.
Right now, there are still plenty of towns and counties that are overwhelmingly white, yet they are not governed by whites who have a strong racial identity. These communities do not have leaders who will work to keep them white. Thus, they are not our territory. These white communities, no matter how wholesome, safe, and well-run they might be, are essentially defenseless against those who wish to flood them with aliens and replace the population. We do not control them, and one cannot retreat from what he does not control. Our goal is to move from controlling nothing to controlling something. If we go from having no openly pro-white elected officials to having half of the Republicans in the state legislature of Wyoming or West Virginia on our side, that is a significant victory.
Additionally, there are countless individuals who will only support what they perceive to be socially acceptable. What becomes normal and acceptable in one county, or one state, can easily spread to others. If explicit White Identity Politics proves to be an electoral success in West Virginia, others will try the same thing in Ohio and Indiana. If a pro-white candidate from Kentucky wins a seat in Congress, don’t be surprised to see a pro-white contender in the Tennessee or North Carolina governor’s race a year later. I believe that it is inevitable that there will be viable pro-white candidates in all those states, but that strategic migration to specific areas could serve to speed things up. The quickest way to normalize White Identity Politics is to win elections, so we need to start where the elections are most winnable: in state and local races in white, conservative areas. After we win some of those, it will become easier to win elsewhere.
Conclusion
At the beginning of this article, I described what I hoped would happen politically in the next decade. You might call that “Plan A.” Well, it doesn’t look like “Plan A” is going to happen, so it’s time to move to “Plan B.” Plan B for White Nationalists centers around gaining political control of territory. It requires electing pro-white candidates into office so that we can be in a position to advocate for ourselves as a minority group and effectively resist the excesses of anti-white, Leftist rule at the federal level. Plan B looks like a shift in focus to state and local politics, advocating not centralized federal power, but decentralization and eventually nullification and secession.
You may have noticed that Plan A was all about relying on Trump and the current Republican Party to position us to seize victory, and Plan B requires us to transform the Republican party and do all the work ourselves. This is true, but it shouldn’t be a surprise. As Greg Johnson recently wrote “Ultimately, only White Nationalists can create White Nationalism, because only we want it.”
So be it. No one is coming to save us, so it’s time to get to work saving ourselves.
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Excellent article. This needs to be read by many and expanded upon. Other countries can also plan ahead like this. In Australia there are obvious locations that are much safer for Whites long term, and in New Zealand I’m told the South Island is significantly Whiter than the North.
Excellent article. This needs to be read by many and expanded upon. Other countries can also plan ahead like this. In Australia there are obvious locations that are much safer for Whites long term, and in New Zealand I’m told the South Island is significantly Whiter than the North.
I once read a fascinating post which argued that Canada’s racial patriots should focus on the Maritimes. It’s the Whitest region of North America, has a unique local culture and history, and a relatively diversified economy for its population size (fishing, offshore oil and gas, shipbuilding, farming, some tech, etc.). The local climate is also moderated by the ocean, so it isn’t as harsh as living in the Prairie Provinces.
The biggest issue is that the Maritimes are somewhat liberal but this often has an ethnic element (with French-Canadians showing stronger support for the Liberal Party).
In Australia there are obvious locations that are much safer for Whites long term, and in New Zealand I’m told the South Island is significantly Whiter than the North.
The Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement makes movement between Australia and New Zealand very easy and Australia is, generally speaking, the more racially conscious nation. NZ also has a long history of feminism and its politics are heavily influenced by that, whereas Australian culture is (stereotyping) a bit more masculine. That’s a big advantage for racially conscious Whites as modern Feminism overlaps heavily with Third Worldism.
I think that due to their shared history as British colonies, it would make sense for New Zealanders and Australians to work closely together and select specific regions of Australia to focus on. The local politics are more friendly and Australia is the “grand prize” within that part of the world. A racially conscious Australia would be a huge victory for Whites and it would be especially moralizing for Anglo-Saxons / Anglo-Celts.
Not to be a nay-sayer, but the federal government—along with religious and educational organizations—could easily direct immigrant populations to states like West Virginia or Arkansas. I moved from a major coastal city to the rural Midwest, yet over the past three years I’ve seen a noticeable increase in Indian immigrants here, much of it driven by recruitment at a nearby university. In the end, you leave the great cities our fathers built, only to watch your small-town refuge transformed by the very same immigration.
This is all true. It may not even be an institution like a University, but organized Indians armed with H1-Bs and SBA loans. They are doing this in every last nook and cranny of the country. However, they are numerically small in these areas for now. They own the gas stations and liquor stores … …
That said, we must enact this plan. We must be the ones to move in and rouse the 95% of Americans their to find a spine and to find ways to gain political power. You can organize a boycott of gas stations and raise money for a White owned one on the ground as an example.
In any case, all you say is true. But, we must begin the fight and escalate the intensity and quality of our tactics. National electoral politics is a tough road. Dominating a set of locales as a base is the logical next step.
Exactly. The Indians around here own all the cheap motels—which they let fall into disrepair—and the liquor and wine shops, even though they know nothing about spirits or wine. Clearly, their motive is simply to profit from our vices, not any curatorial taste or passion for these traditional European products
It is a terrible crime. One of the great disasters of hyper-scaling the country was that all of the elite human capital in small towns was sucked away into bigger cities or global cities. At the same time, the people who remained were broken by de-industrialization. To top the crime off, Our money was used to pay for Indians to come in and take over service industries. This is while Clinton and his buddies were telling America to embrace the service economy. They took their jobs away and instead of giving them a leg up to be the proprietors of service businesses, they let Indians, Chinese and other aliens get the leg up and come in and set up shop. It is pure evil.
Nonetheless, the elite/high human capital bit is very important for us to understand. As people move into towns that suffer from this it is important that those who do move in carry a tremendous sense of duty as they imbibe them with higher agency and talent.
Part of that will be identifying who will make good operators and hiring them and helping them to get them on your side. We will proscribe these invaders but we will have to make it clever as we do it.
Some things you can do are:
Open up a much better competitor or set of competitors and put them out of business. Things on the gas station front are getting off the ground.
Get on the regulatory or inspector departments and fine them or suspend their licenses or put them up for re-auction … for sanitation violations.
Outlaw vice like Cannabis shops, Kratum … …
Pass punitive local remittance taxes.
Get funds from federal and state sources to fund heritage entrepreneurship.
Pass local ordinances that put the squeeze on these operators from any angle you can see.
Previously mentioned, open a competitor and offer heritage club rates and identity oriented benefits and do de-facto boycotts.
Offer tax breaks for Heritage American run businesses.
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I saw this Twitter post by Wall Street Apes on my lunch break today. It concerns the “soullessness” of small-town America — or what Karsten Harries might describe as the abandonment of ethos or ethical function in today’s built landscape, whether in high style architecture or the low vernacular: https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/2047700640345075862
If we nationalists are to make our homes in places like West Virginia and Arkansas, we must first commit ourselves to eradicating the fast-food joints and big-box stores that have desecrated the landscape and destroyed the soul of so many small towns. This unchecked “uglification” exerts a profoundly depressive and demoralizing effect on the spirit of the people — every bit as much as mass immigration does. Burn all that ugliness to the ground and build anew in a vernacular that honors our European inheritance.
This is a mission that could win us many recruits from the Left, much as MAHA made strange bedfellows between RFK Jr. types and people like me. How is it that towns like Montpelier, Vermont have become havens for progressives? Montpelier allows independent, locally owned businesses — cafés, bookstores, workshops and services that fit the historic downtown scale — while effectively keeping out corporate chains. Strong planning review, design control, and a cultural commitment to preserving character have kept the town this way. We need to make Montpelier the model for the towns we settle anew.
The NorthWest series (The Brigade, etc), details this scenario; however, the method to achieve it is unmentionable. The coasts are overtaken by nons, and there only programs allowed to exist are aimed at DEIversifying the remaining White counties. It can’t be mentioned what will be required to keep and maintain White majority, but we all know; the guns are already aimed at us.
Excellent article, Dave. Thanks
Excellent piece! Why would you rule out Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont? Too far left at this point? That’s mainly because they’ve never had much exposure to vibrancy. Maine has begun to get a strong dose of it, and its residents are beginning to wake up. Don’t rule out the upper north east.
I wouldn’t necessarily rule out the Upper Northeast, but I feel like that would be a tougher road because the people already there aren’t aligned with us. Back in 2020 Lauren Witzke was able to win Republican Senate primary in Delaware calling for a total moratorium of all immigration. I remember Peter Brimelow at VDARE was very excited about her campaign. But she was easily defeated by Chris Coons in the general election.
Small blue states are an option, but not the easiest option. I think the first step is to change who the candidates are (either by running ourselves or pressuring Republicans to become more anti-immigration, anti-war, and pro-white). Changing a Democrat state into a pro-White populist dominated state would unfortunately require more of our people moving than is realistic. I think a thousand or so dedicated race realists who move to a state and get very active could absolutely shake up the state GOP and influence primary elections, but that’s nowhere near enough to flip general elections.
Dave,
Maybe we should talk. If you want to, either tell Greg to send me your email or I can have Greg send you mine.
Derek.
Maine has some very appealing characteristics for such an attempt. Along with the facts that it is still very white and that some residents are starting to grasp Diversity 101 with the introduction of Somalis, it also offers a large seacoast. One problem that the interior part of the country has is that they are land-locked and would have to fly over Nonistan to get overseas. Also, libertarian New Hampshire offers something of a buffer zone between Maine and all other states; certainly the right-libertarians of NH would be better neighbors than the rest of the Northeast.
The biggest problem is that Maine is no longer a red state, thanks to the influx of migrants and Massholes. The state government would likely throw all of its resources against any pro-white advocates. That goes even more so for communist Vermont. (Although how much real resistance are Bernie, Ben, and Jerry going to put up?)
Great article! I live in Kentucky, and it is difficult to imagine them ever waking up. 🙃
Great article. Im surprised Montana didnt meet your criteria. Did too few whites in MT vote Trump?
Yes, I think that’s what it was. Montana would have been the very next state on the list. Definitely another good choice. Others that almost made the cut were Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and Arkansas.
There were a few states that were close to meeting the criteria I set up- which I fully admit is arbitrary. I wasn’t sure how many states were going to end up making the list before I looked at the data, but once I checked and saw there were six, I figured that was a good even number to write about.
Great article, Dave. According to http://www.morseresearch.org, your picks of both West Virginia and Wyoming consistently rank amongst the lowest of all 50 states for refugee resettlement spending and arrivals.
Dave, in the article you said:
“Of the six, West Virginia and Wyoming are the two whitest, and Wyoming and North Dakota are the two smallest. Kentucky is by far the largest, and Idaho is the least white, though still above seventy-five percent.”
One has to be careful with averages here. I’m pretty familiar with Idaho since I’m descended from Pioneer ancestors and lived there for High School and College, and a good portion of my work experience.
But, the point is, if you were to spend the Summer in most Idaho counties, I would bet a steak dinner that you would not even see a Black person, and if you did, he would be either a tourist or a Federal worker.
The numbers for Blacks or Asians or Natives is less than 1 percent ─ or barely over that in the case of the latter two categories.
What is skewing the “averages” in reality is Hispanics. I would put that at around 15 percent, and this is fuzzy because it is not necessarily a racial classification and includes some Whites.
If the Mom and Pop stores are being taken over by anybody in Idaho it is probably not by Pajeets but by Beaners.
In most Idaho counties even at the turn of the last century (the 2000 census) the percentage of Whites would easily top 90 or even 95 percent.
In most Western states, if you were to strike off the people living in a handful of cities, there would be no popular votes left.
The rule of thumb is that the West has a lot of space but not a lot of people. The fourth largest county in Idaho by population, i.e., Bonneville County, has more land area than the state of Rhode Island.
So let’s look more closely at Idaho according to the 2020 Census…
The three most populous cities in Idaho are its Capital, i.e., Boise, Nampa, and Idaho Falls.
Nampa is in the large Boise metropolitan area, and Idaho Falls is the seat of Bonneville County. Idaho Falls is where most of the thousands of scientists, engineers and atomic workers at the Idaho National Laboratory live, so I would wager that it tends to be more educated than most.
The top demographically large cities, to include their metropolitan areas, would be Boise, Coeur d’Alene, and Idaho Falls.
The big complaint of those living in the Boise area is that the costly infrastructure that they left in California did not come with them. Sometimes the journalists complain about the lack of “diversity.” I am not sure if this is code for a shortage of Jazz music or Gay bars.
Only 5 counties of the 44 total in Idaho even top a population of 100 thousand. Only eight or nine counties even top 50 thousand.
And these are some of the Whitest counties that you are ever going to find in the United States.
Traditionally, Idaho has been governed by Democrats in the North due to traditional Unionized occupations like mining, logging, manufacturing, and now the Public sector. Today, tourism is the top-third occupation.
Mormons and Potato farming dominate the South and East of the state along the Snake River Valley.
Idaho became a Right-to-Work state during the Reagan era and wages took a nosedive. Today, Coeur d’Alene is full of wealthy, often-retired Libtards, and it is part of the Spokane, Washington metropolitan area.
I am not sure which city is worse, Spokane or Coeur d’Alene, but if you ignore the homeless, unionized Washington state generally pays higher wages. Washington state also has no state income tax.
Except for Boise, which has had its ranks swell with Californians in recent years, and the small University cadre at Idaho State University in Pocatello, the Republicans rule the roost. Big Time. (Better not smell like weed if you happen to get pulled over by an Idaho state trooper, LOL.)
However, recently an Idaho jury awarded 3.4 million dollars to a doctoral pharmacy student who sued Idaho State University for racial discrimination.
I am not especially familiar with the case, but apparently the plaintiff thought that her African heritage allowed her to routinely show up on Negro Standard Time, and her hospital employer suspected her to be incautious with confidential patient records.
Recently, I read an article in the Idaho Statesman (Boise) by somebody who was praising the virtues of the GOP state legislature banning things like tranny surgeries for minors, mixed-sex bathrooms, and mandating that teachers and school counselors disclose certain things to parents before it becomes another “transgender school shooting,” and so on.
The tone of the article was relatively sober, and that these were common-sense GOP measures that had changed decisively in the Trump era. Biden and Kamalamala had a different agenda entirely, so happy days were here again.
Well, the Letters to the Editor immediately lit up with the usual suspects: LGBTQ Allies, TDS sufferers, Cult Marx, and the rest of AntiFa and assorted riff-raff.
Most of the readers (though not the journos or publishers) were probably Conservatives, and they are easily bullied by the small non-GOP minority shills who accuse them of living in the Führerbunker, homeschooling semi-literate kids at Bible Camp, being tax protestors, etc.
White people in these heavily-White areas just are not going to “come out” as White advocates or even as fellow travellers. They have only recently come out as Trump supporters.
So this is an important psychology that would need to be well-understood and mastered by any politically-aspiring White Nationalists.
Another consideration if you are going to move somewhere ─ especially someplace desolate like Wyoming ─ is how are you going to make a living. Most probably are not old enough to collect Social Security or a pension.
For the most part, rural counties have three or four major games in town:
Goverment or Education, Big Box stores like Walmart, corporate franchises like Wendy’s, or selling your labor in a market where literally everybody does this, and very few can claim a college degree.
Sure, if you are the best hand-hewn lumber splitter on the lower fork, then maybe that works; otherwise, I hope that you can do plumbing and electrical, or hang sheetrock, because I don’t know how many backhoe operators or tour guides are needed, and they are probably going to hire the minority with a college degree. Plus, Paco and Ernesto can probably do it all cheaper anyway.
I had a fellow student friend from the Electronic Engineering Technology program at the college (BYU-Idaho today) who was an electrician for a company that cut travertine marble quarried in the SE Idaho area.
The quality of the marble, which I suppose they use to make countertops and hearths for rich people’s homes at the ski resorts, was some of the best in the world ─ and a lot cheaper than the stuff imported from Italy.
Anyway, he was quite proud of what he did for a living, and could support a nice family, even though he was dutifully continuing his technology education. To the endless annoyance of the Electronics instructor, he used to quip at the beginning of every exam with something like: “What the hell, is a deci-bell?”
The bottom line is that while you might hear some Mexican being spoken at the SEED & FEED while you are stocking up on your wool hats, you are going to be hard-pressed in Idaho to find fewer than about 85 percent White people.
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