denny Ethnic & National book

Long time White Nationalist, Jamie Kelso tries in vain to recruit young conservatives to the white nationalist cause. His message falls on mostly deaf ears - though recognized as grossly wrong, the young republican counter arguments lack a comprehensive historical understanding of of the role of slavery, even though, one element that founded the Republican party were militant abolitionists (see abolitionists in Ripon, Wisconsin). But the other faction in that Republican Civil War coalition were the vested interests behind cotton, which was king of the 19th century US economy - grown in the South but manufactured into cloth and canvas in the industrialized north-east and shipped around the world. Cotton could not grown in the north - so if the South left the Union, so would cotton. The abolitionist movement died with the end of Slavery, but the other faction, the faction that succeeded in protection its source of raw materials came to dominate the Republican party. The history of the abolitionist wing of the Republican Party is now mostly only remembered as a hollow retort to Obama and the Democrats, as if today's Republican Party resembled in any shape or form that heroic idealistic wing. Ron Paul's platform embraced State's Rights, making him attractive to Kelso and other white nationalists who wanted to reimpose discrimination based upon color, national origins, gender, sexual preference and/or religion. Finally, supporters of Ron Paul, so embarrassed by Kelso's racist ...