What is it about Idaho in particular that appeals so much to neo-Nazis and other far-right extremists that they all keep moving out there?

  • tal@lemmy.today
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    7 hours ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_Nations

    Aryan Nations was a North American neo-Nazi[1] and white supremacist[2] hate group that was originally based in Kootenai County, Idaho, about 2+3⁄4 miles (4.4 km) north of the city of Hayden Lake.

    Probably some lasting effect from that.

    Starting in 1981, Butler organized yearly gatherings of white supremacists at his compound in Idaho which he termed the “Aryan Nations World Congress.” At his first conference, Butler called for the division of the United States into racial mini-states, including a white ethnostate in the Pacific Northwest. He said that he had a black ally in the plan, Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam.[3] At the 1983 Aryan Nations World Congress, Louis Beam and other leaders in the white power movement declared war on the U.S. government.[4]