VDARE.com was started on Christmas Eve, 1999, named after Virginia Dare, “the first English child to be born in the New World, in August 1587, shortly after the founding of what was to become known as “The Lost Colony” on Roanoke Island off the North Carolina coast.“
It says something about the mettle of those settlers that any pregnant woman would cross the Atlantic, the equivalent of a lunar expedition at that time — and Virginia’s mother Elenor was no less than the daughter of John White, the colony’s governor.
Perhaps you have to have a daughter yourself to appreciate what White must have felt three years later, when he finally returned from a supply trip to England, much delayed by the Spanish Armada. The smoke he took at first to be proof of occupation turned out to be brushfires. The settlement stood abandoned. Over a hundred settlers, his daughter and granddaughter among them, had vanished. He would never see them again. (For more information about the Lost Colony, click here…)
Today, Virginia Dare seems to be vanishing from American education too. But she was a fixture for earlier generations. Even Franklin D. Roosevelt felt free to give a speechcommemorating the 350th anniversary of her birth. At one point, I planned to pay homage by bestowing her name on the heroine of a projected fictional concluding chapter in Alien Nation, about the flight of the last white family in Los Angeles. It seemed … symmetrical.
I was dissuaded.
We've been here ever since, and the Historic American Nation is also still here. Last year I wrote that recently we’ve learned that, according to the Census, America’s white population is declining in absolute terms and that, according to various Main Stream Media thinkers, this is a Good Thing, because it means that evil whiteness is declining.
That’s why we shouldn’t forget that if you’re a “white minority,” you face serious challenges. However, from the Lost Colony of Virginia rose the American Nation, and it’s been kind of hard to suppress since.
So once again, on Virginia Dare’s Birthday, let’s not forget what the Historic American Nation created — and that it has a future as well as a past.
