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A couple of years ago, the group Return to the Land established a whites-only enclave in a remote corner of Arkansas. A second nearby community followed in 2025. And the organization, whose actions are under review by the Arkansas attorney general, plans several more locations in the Ozark Mountains and in Appalachia.
These attempts to develop white ethnostates may seem isolated. But Paul J. Becker, an extremism scholar at the University of Dayton, writes that they form part of a larger countrywide movement toward achieving white nationalism.
If decades ago extremists envisioned large stretches of land like the Pacific Northwest as potential white nationalist utopias, Becker argues that today a popular alternative among these groups is to attempt to establish smaller all-white communities. And he points to examples in Maine and North Dakota.
Driven by conspiracy theories and anti-immigrant hatred, these extremists have popped up in different corners of the country. But, as Becker notes, so has community resistance and public outcry.
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Alfonso Serrano
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The group Return to the Land wants to build several whites-only sites in Arkansas and Appalachia.
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Paul J. Becker, University of Dayton
Several white nationalist groups such as Return to the Land have attempted to establish all-white communities across the country.
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