Northwest Territorial Imperative

proper noun

The plan to establish a white ethnostate in the northwestern United States.

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Northwest Imperative

  1. The plan to establish a white ethnostate in the northwestern United States.

    Richard Spencer and others fantasize about a white ethno-state — this is the Northwest Territorial Imperative, or Northwest Imperative, that would stretch from Montana to Oregon and Washington State.

    2019 August 6, Lauretta Charlton, “What Is the Great Replacement?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
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    In a 1986 speech at Aryan Nations, Miles outlined how the Northwest Territorial Imperative would become reality “by White racialists moving to the area, buying land together or adjacent to each other and having families consisting of five and ten children. […]”

    2003, Mattias Gardell, Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 112

    Later, the Aryan Nations would call this plan the “Northwest Territorial Imperative” (or simply “Northwest Imperative”). If this vision was ever to be realized—and the Pacific Northwest become a White bastion—where would the non-Whites go?

    2009, Christopher Buck, Religious Myths and Visions of America: How Minority Faiths Redefined America's World Role, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 114

    The location of the land is consistent with “Norman Spear’s” advocacy of a white supremacist strategy called the Northwest Territorial Imperative (NTI), which was promoted by the deceased white supremacist Harold Covington.

    2020 January 24, “Revealed: the true identity of the leader of an American neo-Nazi terror group”, in The Guardian, retrieved 10 Mar 2022
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