The Cotton of Richard Spencer's Alt-Right
At a conference in 2016, celebrating his Alt-Right movement, Richard Spencer affirmed his beliefs, stating “we recognize a central lie of American race relations. We don’t exploit other groups—we don’t gain anything from their presence. They need us, and not the other way around." [1]
Spencer’s wealth is primarily generated by farms in Louisiana. Farms that are tended by non-whites; the very people he claims not to need.
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"Spencer, along with his mother and sister, are absentee landlords of 5,200 acres of cotton and corn fields in an impoverished, largely African American region of Louisiana." [2]
These farms are "subsidized by the federal government. From 2008 through 2015", the Spencers "received more than $2 million in government subsidies." [2][3]
Despite Spencer's financial reliance on non-white labor and on government programs designed to support the local agricultural economy, he insisted that "America was, until this past generation, a white country, designed for ourselves and our posterity. It is our creation, it is our inheritance, and it belongs to us." [1]
"According to Spencer, immigration ‘is a kind of proxy war—and maybe a last stand—for White Americans, who are undergoing a painful recognition that, unless dramatic action is taken, their grandchildren will live in a country that is alien and hostile’" [6]
The ‘proxy war’ to which Spencer refers, more commonly called ‘Great Replacement Theory,’ is a conspiratorial hypothesis, contending that liberals are using pro-immigration policies to intentionally dilute the vitality of the White Republican electorate.
"White supremacists … have long contended that the country’s demographic changes will lead to an extermination of the white race and culture." [5]
The country is diversifying; but, as of 2024, the United States is 75 percent white. [4]
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SOURCES:
[1] How Stephen Miller Rode White Rage from Duke’s Campus to Trump’s West Wing
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/stephen-miller-duke-donald-trump
[2] White Nationalist Richard Spencer Gets His Money From Louisiana Cotton Fields—and the US Government
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/03/richard-spencer-cotton-farms-louisiana-subsidies/
[3] Richard Spencer’s cotton farms
https://revealnews.org/podcast/richard-spencers-cotton-farms/
[4] 2024 United States Population Information
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045224
[5] White nationalism, born in the USA, is now a global terror threat
https://theconversation.com/white-nationalism-born-in-the-usa-is-now-a-global-terror-threat-113825
[6] Richard B. Spencer: The founder of alt-right presents racism in a chic new outfit
https://www.populismstudies.org/richard-b-spencer-the-founder-of-alt-right-presents-racism-in-a-chic-new-outfit/
[7] Richard Spencer Wiki Page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Spencer
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