[From "The Fires that Forge a Nation"]

One of the most important historical realities for the Dissident Right to understand is that nations are made by outside pressure[…]A proto-nation is formed when a group of people[…]comes into contact with a people that are even more unlike them, which convinces them to unite against the new threat
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None of this, including the fact that nations are formed by external pressure rather that something innate, means that nations are imaginary or national distinctions are arbitrary. Diamonds, too, are formed by external pressure, but they exist and the distinction between them and coal[…]remains real
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The first phase is to convince Dixians that others are radically different from ourselves[…]Southerners met more and more people who were unlike them and they knew it[…]After the Counter-Revolution of 1877, Dixie was able to establish home rule and we knew then that we were different. But the North, now filled with global and colonial ambitions, had a fear that Dixie was going to become to them what Ireland was to the UK
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In exchange for loyalty to the Empire, Dixians would largely be allowed to rule themselves and keep their identity, but this was to be regional rather than national, hence the tendency of Dixians[…]to fly both the American and Confederate flags
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All this changed when the Yankees began to break home rule starting in 1948, a task largely completed by 1965[…]Dixians began to get a sense of just how different they were from others and more nationalistic feelings were able to develop. This was further aided by something happening that Dixie had been largely able to avoid before, large scale immigration (read invasion)
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If White Alabamians had moved to Virginia in the same number as the Yankee, I guarantee you they would not be tearing down Monument Avenue or promoting infanticide