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In 2009, this essay won The Occidental Quarterly essay contest on secession. It is now the title essay of O’Meara’s book Toward the White Republic, available for pre-order here. (The books will arrive here from the printers on September 9th.)
“Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!”
—Walter Scott