No Jews allowed: White supremacists are building a segregated community in Arkansas, but is it legal?
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Nearly 60 years after the United States outlawed racial and religious discrimination in housing, one group in Arkansas is openly reviving it.
“Return to the Land,” a white supremacist group started in 2023, owns 160 acres in northeast Arkansas, according to the group’s website. Jews and non-whites are explicitly banned from membership. Prospective residents must verify their “ancestral heritage” in a written application and interview before becoming paying members and residing in the off-grid settlement, according to the group’s Substack.
The organization hopes to replicate its whites-only settlements across the country, with the stated aim of “trying to put land back under the control of Europeans.” Experts warn the group’s practices likely run afoul of anti-discrimination laws and express doubt about its long-term viability.
Still, the group’s financial and legal infrastructure makes it one of the most established white supremacist residential communities in the United States today, according to Morgan Moon, an investigative researcher with the Anti-Defamation League’s Center for Extremism.
Return to the Land is part of a long tradition of white supremacist groups that have sought to create isolated living communities, according to Moon. In the 1970s and ‘80s, white supremacists urged like-minded racists to move to the Pacific Northwest with the goal of transforming the area into a white ethnostate. In recent years, similar attempts at forming remote enclaves have cropped up in Kentucky, North Dakota, and Maine.
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