Stephan: For the first time in 500 years White culture is not going to be dominant in the world, and the United States is going to become a majority non-White nation. For many people this is a source of fear and anxiety. This is what drove the Birthers, and this is what is making it possible for hard core white nationalists -- Neo Nazis, Ku Klux Klan members, neo-Confederates, the whole lot of them -- to consider again running for public office. In parts of the country the less toxic of them are going to start winning.
From that will flow policies that will further break the country down into bio-regions. Cascadia, from Northern California to the Canadian border, and increasingly across it to Vancouver is one such region. The cluster of states that constitutes its antipode are Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana. It is in this second region that this movement's power will show up first.
America has always been a nation riven by race, and we are nowhere near through with that trend.
Add to the growing list of candidates considering a bid for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012 America’s most famous white-power advocate: David Duke.
A former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives and Republican executive-committee chairman in his district until 2000, Duke has a significant following online. His videos go viral. This month, he’s launching a tour of 25 states to explore how much support he can garner for a potential presidential bid. He hasn’t considered running for serious office since the early ’90s, when he won nearly 40 percent of the vote in his bid for Louisiana governor. But like many ‘white civil rights advocates,
