White Flight Today, White Flight Tomorrow, White Flight Forever?

My family and I recently relocated to an “authentically white” part of the US. What’s that? It’s a place where: There is a 90+ percent white majority. Whites do menial jobs. You can listen to local radio stations that play exclusively white music: folk, country, bluegrass, and early classic rock. Residents leave the doors to their garages and sheds unlocked or open. There are no “bad parts of town” or “bad schools.” Confederate, Gadsden, or even state flags are as common as American flags.

Few such regions remain in America, and another decade of demographic change might erase the last of them. Besides an immigration moratorium, the main hope for preserving these areas is through an influx of racially conscious whites from “blue states.” That’s my story, and I am not the only one. But what could save authentically white regions from multiracialism might kill the Southern character of most of them. A week ago I overheard a Nashville native complain that his city has lost its Southern feel. You have to seal off the state, I told him. He thought I was joking. But what other solution is there?

I urge Southerners to take drastic action before it’s too late, even if it means blocking the state off from blue state exiles such as myself. When I was searching for a house to rent or buy, I didn’t experience the slightest discrimination despite having identified myself as a New York native — a potential Democrat voter and “community organizer”/ Social Justice activist. “You should be discriminating against all outsiders,” I thought to myself, if you want to protect your culture and traditions. But the locals don’t seem to want to believe what I’m saying. Growth is what’s most important — Southern accents and safe schools be damned. We have seen the results of that approach in many places.