About 40 years ago white conservatives tried to establish a community outside Coeur d'Alene, Idaho characterized by Christian values, large families, and fewer immigrants, just like Skyler Kressin in this profile the NYT ran on July 4.
Back then, they called their community the Aryan Nations.
I know they get rolled all the time but for the Times to get rolled by “actually they just want to reclaim the values of Western civilization as they see it … with larger families and fewer immigrants” is the Times putting the 14 words in the paper
This means that on July 4, the day this country reserves to commemorate its founding as a pluralistic democracy, the NYT ran an op-ed by a conservative activist telling people not to bother voting (unlike him) and this article celebrating a reenactment of the Aryan Nations' resettlement scheme.
These projects never stopped. There was one called Pioneer Little Europe Kalispell in Montana. And other groups have tried Eastern Oregon too.
They usually collapse into incest and infighting (not joking, a LOT of sister-fucking in that bunch).
Sure. But Hayden Lake (a suburb of Coeur d'Alene) in the 80s is probably the most famous example (at least among people my age), and this guy went right fking *there*.
The 80s are largely lost to the mists of time. It's before everything was digitized automatically and too late to be fun to digitize now. And Graham has been covering religion for a whole decade. Sorry, I'm in a bad mood. I think newspapers should hire us as griots from the age of print.
I first started visiting Utah (from Boston) in the 1980s and I clearly remember all the Bo Gritz signs and this crap in Couer d’Alene. It was everywhere!
This is the house his little girl is growing up in. At best their upbringing will involve an absolutely stifling and rather panicked imposition of stereotyped gender roles.
If I was some of the incoming immigrants seeing the way some people were I would make a settlement just for me & other immigrants as well as "a few good white folks" maybe.
People would probably get pissed but they could be like "WE AREN'T IN YOUR AREA AND WE AREN'T TAKING YOUR JOBS"
