TEXIT Just A Symptom — Immigration-Driven Displacement Really Is Breaking Up U.S. States

01/30/2024

Texas kritarchs, in alliance with GOP operatives just blocked the Texas Nationalist Movement’s bid, backed by 139,000 signatures, to get secession from the Union (“Texit”) on the GOP primary ballot in March [Texans Wanting to Leave US Blame Republican for Making Them Stay, by Katherine Fung, Newsweek, January 24, 2024]. You can see why they were so scared! The developing clash over the Great Replacement border treason between Traitor Joe Biden and Texas Governor Greg Abbot now includes D.C. threats to seize the Texas National Guard [Abbott says nationalizing Texas National Guard would be severe Biden ‘political blunder,’ Lauren Irwin, The Hill, January 20, 2024] and also, yes, Texas breaking away from the Union to defend itself [Heading For the ‘Texit’?, by Ron Paul, LewRockwell.com, January 30, 2024]. But what’s shaping up to be an Alamo-like Last Stand for The Historic American Nation in Texas is a symptom of the growing demography-driven U.S.-wide growing secession movement — at the state level (for now).

And perhaps the most interesting thing about the Main Stream Media’s coverage of this trend is that it hasn’t been all that bad.

A few examples from the past year:

CBS’s Sunday Morning has even-handedly updated a previous report about Eastern Oregon’s move to join Idaho.

And perhaps the most interesting thing about the Main Stream Media’s coverage of this trend is that it hasn’t been all that bad.

A few examples from the past year:

CBS’s Sunday Morning has even-handedly updated a previous report about Eastern Oregon’s move to join Idaho.

Absent from the CBS report was any claim from the reporter that the movement’s leaders were racist neo-Confederates swimming in misty memories of moonlight and magnolias and the Lost Cause. Rather, Lee Cowan sympathetically explained why voters in Eastern Oregon want to leave the state: They’re tired of the “Progressive” overlords in Portland voting against everything they believe and having no recourse to fight back.

Greater Idaho movement leader Mike McMasters was quoted:

What that means politically, [McMasters] says, is that the Blue part of Western Oregon

Greater Idaho movement leader Mike McMasters was quoted:

What that means politically, [McMasters] says, is that the Blue part of Western Oregon always outweighs the Eastern part’s Red. “In talking to a legislator over in the Portland area, I said, ’The legislature doesn’t listen to our people, our representatives over here.’ He said, ’Whoa whoa whoa, stop, Mike. We hear what they’re saying. We just out-vote you.’”

Leftist urban Americans who outvote patriotic rural Americans are the problem everywhere, basically because the U.S. Supreme Court, in 1964’s Reynolds v. Sims decision, imposed “one-man, one vote” democracy on the states — unlike the situation at the federal level, where the differing communities are protected from the “tyranny of the majority” by the U.S. Senate and the Electoral College.

That and other decisions stripped state legislatures of their power to protect rural Americans from the totalitarian measures of Leftists who control the populated urban areas. This is the genesis of the secession movement. Seven years ago, SCOTUS turned down a challenge to the ruling in Evenwel v. Abbott, which undoubtedly energized the internal secession movements, which have continued growing since then.

And consider an offering from Governing magazine that appeared just after the Idaho legislature passed a bill that permits legislators to speak with Oregon’s officials about a merger with the eastern part of the state:

“A lot of political tension happens in our states because of this urban-rural divide,” Matt McCaw, a spokesman for Greater Idaho, told Governing’s Alan Greenblatt. “In Eastern [sic] Oregon, we have government that doesn’t match our culture, our values, our life”:

They’re not alone. In Illinois, more than two dozen counties have voted to break away and create a new state, including three last fall. Parts of Colorado would prefer to join Wyoming. There are officials in Western Maryland who want to be part of West Virginia. Residents in parts of Southern Oregon and Northern California have talked for decades about forming a new state of Jefferson. In 2018, the California Supreme Court blocked an initiative that would have split that state into three.

[We Can’t All Get Along: What’s Driving Modern Secession Movements, March 10, 2023]

VDARE.com has been tracking this trend, including the movements in Texas, Florida, and Virginia.

As Greenblatt reported, “most of the current discussions involve rural areas that feel both neglected and outvoted by metropolitan majorities that dominate their states”:

A decade ago, 11 rural counties in Colorado held secession votes, angered by environmental and gun-control legislation passed by legislative majorities dominated by the Denver-Boulder corridor. But residents of suburban San Bernardino County, outside Los Angeles, did approve a measure last November to explore splitting off from California.

Last month, the Idaho House passed a resolution to explore annexing much of Oregon. A majority of lawmakers saw clear advantages, including abundant natural resources and access to ocean ports. “Idaho has much more strict drug laws than Oregon, so by moving the border, we would move the Oregon drug trade farther from Idaho’s main population center,” says GOP state Rep. Judy Boyle. “We would gain enough citizens to give Idaho another congressional seat, plus bring more businesses and innovators into Idaho.” …

McCaw argues that what’s at stake is a form of political freedom. People in the parts of Oregon that are routinely outvoted by the Portland area have had enough. It makes no sense to maintain borders drawn well more than a century ago that have outlived their usefulness, he says. “What we’re saying is, you deserve to have the government and the community the way you want it.” In other words, an updating and revitalization of federalism for our times, with people able to choose (or create) a more amenable political culture.

For the record, here are some words and phrases that do not appear in Greenblatt’s even-handed approach: racist, Confederate, neo-Confederate, white nationalist, and white supremacist.

Back in late 2021, The Atlantic’s Antonia Hitchens was similarly balanced. She took the movement seriously. Very seriously. She gave McCarter a fair hearing, too, and avoided branding the movement with the usual epithets.

Joining Idaho would keep rural Oregon the way America used to be, McCarter explained …

In his narrative, Salem is the villain forcing eastern Oregon counties to comply with laws that seem irrelevant or offensive to their rural setting, rules that have no bearing on their lived reality. Recent redistricting only compounded the sense that representation would never skew in their favor; McCarter feels his supporters’ voices are drowned out by urban ones — the culture over the hill, across the Cascades. Portland is in the midst of its most violent year ever, including more than 1,000 shootings so far. Struggling economically and anticipating the full collapse of industries that used to sustain them, McCarter and his group clamor for popular sovereignty.

Move Oregon’s Border’s true purpose is threefold, McCarter told me: First, obviously, to move the border. Second, to send a message to the state legislature “that you’ve got some very unhappy people, and here are the reasons why.” But the third is more subtle: “It provides a vent for all this anger.” McCarter sees himself as a peaceful guy proximate to violent movements. When he retired from working in plant nurseries and started running a gun club, members of the Oath Keepers, the Three Percenters, and the Project Appleseed prepper group practiced at his shooting range. People’s Rights, the anti-government activist Ammon Bundy’s new far-right network, has asked him to speak at its events. “I know there’s some people that have talked about ‘If this continues on, people are going to pick up their guns,’” McCarter said. “Rural people — their values, the way they live, their faith, their freedom — are closely tied to what Idaho is, so why not adjust the border? Just let us go peacefully.”

[Modern America’s Most Successful Secessionist Movement, December 23, 2021]

Given what the MSM thinks of Americans in flyover country, the secessionists couldn’t ask for more. One almost wonders whether editors at The Atlantic were on vacation when the piece was published.

So credit where it’s due… kudos to Cowan Greenblatt, and Hitchens.

As for the latest on the movement in Oregon, voters in Wallowa County narrowly decided to join Idaho in 2023. The vote was 1752-1745 for Measure 32-007, which requires commissioners to “meet twice annually to discuss promoting Wallowa County interest in relocating Idaho borders to include Wallowa County” [Greater Idaho movement wins Wallowa County by 7 votes, avoids recount, by Nick Gibson, The Oregonian, June 7, 2023].

Of course, that doesn’t mean that the communists in Oregon who oppose the Greater Idaho movement are shy about smearing its members. A pinko outfit called the Western State Centers, which claims it is protecting “democracy,” certainly says so, as VDARE.com reported.

“Over time, Greater Idaho has slowly revealed itself to be something of a poisoned apple: framed as a gift to discontented rural people, but actually a front for far-right culture war talking points, including racist ones,” wrote Leah Sottile of High Country News [Oregon’s Greater Idaho movement echoes a long history of racism in the region, August 1, 2023].

Indeed, Sottile went on:

[P]rominent racists were fired up about the idea. White nationalist leader Jared Taylor touted it on his podcast: “People who live out in the continents of rural sanity, they don’t want to be governed by the people who live on those islands of urban insanity,” he said. The audio was repurposed for a video on the far-right social network Gab — where former Fox News host Tucker Carlson is considered a trusted media source and no one would get banned for posting a swastika. Users buzzed about Greater Idaho.

Articles and clips on the anti-immigrant website VDARE [aargh!] also promoted it. One blog post said that Greater Idaho “would free eastern Oregonians from the anti-white, totalitarian leftists who rule the state.” A video warned that Oregon “won’t protect its residents from thugs, illegal aliens, communist rioters and other undesirables.”

Here’s the blog post and the video.

Famously, last year Georgia GOP Representative Majorie Taylor Greene tweeted that maybe it’s time for a “national divorce,” a sentiment that trended on then-Twitter:

We need a national divorce.

We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government.

Everyone I talk to says this.

From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrat’s traitorous America Last policies, we are…
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) February 20, 2023

Whatever form that divorce takes — whether the two sides, patriots and communists, separate to become different countries, or widespread internal secession that creates new states, protects the differing communities, and alters the make-up of the U.S. Congress and the Senate — something must be done.

With Leftists openly calling for patriots to be executed, peaceful coexistence is impossible. Ignoring America’s increasing cultural, religious, and political fragmentation cannot go on. The 2016 election, and then suspect 2020 election, and then the nakedly political prosecution of the J6 defendants and Donald Trump, has pulled the mask off the Democrats. They’re totalitarians. Communists. And they want us dead.

Remember what they said… on the record. This is a tweet (now deleted) from the political director at ABC News, Rick Klein [Tweet him]:

The linked article, still online, uses the much the same language although the word “cleansing the movement he commands” in the original [Archive.org, January 7, 2020] to “Cleaning up,” etc.

And this call to murder Michael Anton came from Nil Gilman, another communist big shot and senior vice president at the Leftist Berggruen Institute.

Michael Anton is the Robert Brasillach of our times and deserves the same fate https://t.co/eJNOF49qTa
— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) September 21, 2020

[Archive.org link] (Brasillach was a WWII French collaborator executed by a firing squad.)

And here is Democrat Representative Maxine Waters, who incited violence against Trump officials and threatened riots if a jury did not convict Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin of murder in the overdose death of St. George.

We must either seek a national divorce from these lunatics or push some form of secession that returns power to patriot communities. No third course is possible.

Otherwise, as VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow commented after witnessing the communist tantrums at Trump’s 2016 Inauguration, “it will come to blood.”

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