Northwest Territorial Imperative

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The Northwest Territorial Imperative (often shortened to the Northwest Imperative) is a white separatist idea put forward in the 1970s–1980s by white nationalist, white supremacist, white separatist and neo-Nazi groups within the United States. According to it, members of these groups are encouraged to relocate to a region of the Northwestern United States with the intention to eventually turn the region into a white ethnostate. The formation of such a "White homeland" entails the expulsion of all non-White people from the territory. White supremacist leaders Robert E. Miles, Robert Jay Mathews and Richard Butler were originally the main promoters of the idea. In the 2000–2010s, Northwest Front's founder Harold Covington was a prominent supporter of the project. Boundaries advanced by far-right supporters generally include the US states of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, and sometimes also Montana, Wyoming, and Northern California. This territory partially overlaps with the bioregion proposed...

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