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Entry: Race, Nationalism, and Patriotism, Part I: Race Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/race_nationalism_and_patriotism_part_i_race#15540 Post contents: Of course the naturalization law and the militia law of 1792 prove that there was a conception of race as being someone of European descent. The early America legislators didn't specify that 'Englishmen, Germans, and Scot-Irish' had to serve in the militia, it was 'white men'. Obviously this doesn't mean they were devotees of the 'fourteen words' or the turner diaries. But they were not only aware of a white race, they put the concept into political practice. A further word on this devotion to ethnie v. race. The fact is that in todays politics, things boil down to race, or the semi-racial category hispanic. Insisting on breaking white folks down into little ethnic groups is a technique of divide and conquer. I fear this is the fatal flaw of Chronicles-style paleoconservatism. Retreat into your local community, your little ethnic community. Well, you can only retreat so far, the little islands will be swallowed up. I don't want to be swallowed by 100 million mestizos, or 200 million Chinese thanks. Sent at: 2008 10 11