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Northwest Territorial Imperative

Northwest Territorial Imperative proper noun: the plan to establish a white ethnostate in the northwestern United States.

Proper noun

Northwest Territorial Imperative

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

Forms of Northwest Territorial Imperative

alternative formNorthwest Imperative

Questions about Northwest Territorial Imperative

What does Northwest Territorial Imperative mean?
Northwest Territorial Imperative means the plan to establish a white ethnostate in the northwestern United States.
What part of speech is Northwest Territorial Imperative?
Northwest Territorial Imperative is a proper noun.

Words near Northwest Territorial Imperative in the dictionary

  1. northwest by north
  2. northwest by west
  3. Northwest Germanic
  4. Northwest Imperative
  5. Northwest Passage
  6. Northwest Territorial Imperative
  7. Northwest Territories
  8. Northwest Territory
  9. northwestbound
  10. northwester
  11. northwesterlies

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