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collection, swimming pools, better schools, medical<br />
facilities, and so on. In contrast to the reservation or ghetto,<br />
the settler community is full of the resources of modern<br />
industrial life.<br />
Increasingly such communities are suburbs (or<br />
"exurbs"), filled with the Euro-Amerikans who are<br />
regrouping away from the old central cities. Today the<br />
suburban population is 103 million, roughly half of the<br />
U.S. population. These suburbs are fundamentally "allwhite,"<br />
averaging around 90% Euro-Amerikan. Those<br />
numbers are misleading, since most Third-World people in<br />
the suburbs are either tightly segregated into ghettoized<br />
small towns and residential pockets or are Asian. The<br />
social character of the typical suburb is relentlessly,<br />
monolithically "white."<br />
We can see in such garrison communities, urban<br />
"ethnic" enclave as well as suburb, how the shared exceptional<br />
way of life materially and ideologically fuses<br />
together the masses. There, on the same block and street,<br />
the families of electricians and small retailers, truck drivers<br />
and schoolteachers, policemen and grill owners, bookkeepers<br />
and telephone repairmen, white-collar supervisors<br />
and factory workers, computer programmers and legal<br />
secretaries grow up together, go to the same schools<br />
together, and intermarry. Nominal class distinctions on the<br />
common level pale beside their supra-class unification as a<br />
settler mass, most characterized by the labor aristocracy.<br />
Here also is the home of the State labor force.<br />
Policemen and firemen are quite common, and in some<br />
communities almost everyone is related to, friends or<br />
neighbors with police. Literally thousands of "all-white"<br />
voluntary organizations criss-cross settler communities.<br />
Tens of millions of settlers are organized into special reactionary<br />
groupings of the most diverse kinds. Some, such as<br />
the KKK or the Moral Majority, are overt. Far more<br />
respectable and wide-reaching are reactionary organizations<br />
such as the AFL craft unions, "ethnic" organizations<br />
like the Sons of Italy, the "all-white" Roman Catholic<br />
parishes, the "Right-To-Life" groupings, the Mormon<br />
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Church, the NRA, the Betar and other Zionist-fascist<br />
groups, sports leagues, thousands of neighborhood "Improvement<br />
Associations," ranchers associations, military<br />
reserve units, and on and on. The list of special<br />
"all-white" organizations with reactionary politics is<br />
endless.<br />
The National Rifle Association in the state of Pennsylvania<br />
alone has ties to over 1,000 local gun clubs with<br />
200,000 members. One report shows how Jim Price, a<br />
art-time farmer and factory worker, is also a "power<br />
broker" as president of - the state Federation of<br />
Sportsmen's Clubs. This grouping was credited for electing<br />
Republican Richard Schweiker to the U.S. Senate when the<br />
Democratic incumbent spoke out for gun controls. The<br />
report goes on: "Mr. Price's forebears were original settlers<br />
here, so when he talks of the threat of government<br />
dictatorship through gun controls his sense of history<br />
sounds personal. 'My people were chased off twice by the<br />
Indians before they stayed for good,' he said."(l9)<br />
Everyone who has had any contact with the NRA network<br />
of gunmen knows exactly how they expect to use their<br />
weapons. This network alone mobilizes millions of armed<br />
Euro-Amerikans.<br />
Such special reactionary organizations are far<br />
from all-commanding even within the settler community,<br />
but their strength is considerable. What is most important<br />
is to realize that White Amerika is not a political "blank."<br />
The Euro-Amerikan "left" sometimes discusses things as<br />
if this were true, discussing "organizing white workers" as<br />
though they were frozen in place. <strong>Settlers</strong> are not waiting<br />
passively for "the Movement" to come organize them -<br />
the point is they already have many movements, causes<br />
and organizations of their own. That's the problem.