. A number of white separatists are proposing to create a white ethnostate in this region of the central United States. Historically, as well as in modern times,
the Pacific Northwest (
Washington,
Oregon,
Idaho and
Montana) has been proposed by many
white supremacists as a location for the establishment of a white ethnostate. This
Northwest Territorial Imperative was promoted by
Richard Girnt Butler,
Robert Miles,
Robert Jay Mathews,
David Lane, and
Harold Covington, alongside the white supremacist terrorist organization
The Order, the Neo-Nazi
Christian Identity organization
Aryan Nations, the white power skinhead group
Volksfront, and the Northwest Front, among others. The Northwest Territorial Imperative also has loose overlap with the
Cascadia independence movement, which also seeks to create an independent republic between the Northwest and parts of
Northern California in the United States and
British Columbia in
Canada, though many Cascadian groups specifically reject white nationalist ideologies. Some use the term
American Redoubt to describe a similar migration to the Northwestern United States. Other areas have been looked into as sites for a potential white ethnostate by certain groups. Most notably,
the South has been proposed as a white ethnostate by the self-proclaimed "Southern Nationalist"
League of the South (LS) due to the region's history of
secessionism and its
de facto independence as the
Confederate States of America (1861–1865). The
Republic of Florida Militia also has fought for the creation of a white ethnostate in Florida. Another white ethnostate has been proposed by
Billy Roper's Shield Wall Network (SWN), a
neo-Nazi organization based in
Mountain View, Arkansas. It seeks to establish a white ethnostate in the
Ozark region and is affiliated with other separatist groups such as the
Ku Klux Klan (KKK); the
Knights Party, located near
Harrison, Arkansas; the League of the South (LS); and the
National Socialist Movement (NSM), a member of the now-defunct
Nationalist Front. Conversely, the Ozarks have been a "hotbed" for adherents of the
Christian Identity movement, including the
Church of Israel and various members of the
Christian Patriot movement who have set up paramilitary training camps to prepare for a coming
Armageddon. ==See also==