‘Return to the Land’ is one of the most established white supremacist residential communities in the US,
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 co-founded by Eric Orwoll and Peter Csere in 2023, owns 160 acres in northeast Arkansas, according to the group’s
website. Jews and non-whites are explicitly banned. 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.”
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.
Return to the Land is creating whites-only housing communities, with the aim of putting land “back under the control of Europeans.”
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