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Ener's avatar

Seldom does an article shine deep into my soul, but this one was vindicating. I am the Mexican White Supremacist you describe. I am the brown man with the Sonnenrad, except surrounded by the twisting oaks of Northern California instead of cacti. The woke libtards were right as well. I became a Nazi to experience kinship with Whites, and that's exactly what happened. The Southwest and the people who mingled here are my Blut und Boden. Thank you for your insight, and I can't wait to see what you write next.

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Aspen's avatar

I’m glad you liked it. I must admit before any of this I was confused too. A lot of things actually start to make more sense under the lens of a new Kultur forming in this place.

Also don’t cut NorCal just out. I think the Aridoamerican plane as a geocultural space extends to Boise and Jalisco as well as Kansas to the Pacific. You’re well within it.

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Roman's avatar

Hey, I love your Substack. As a born and raised Aridoamerican of white/black/indigenous descent. You’ve really captured the ethos of the people. What are your thoughts on the California Central Valley? I find LA to be a very segregated society. Whereas, the Central Valley and NorCal to be more assimilated. Especially in the gangs. La gangs are very segregated. Norteño gangs are often multiethnic. I would love to hear what you think of the Central Valley and NorCal. And if you have thought about the “non-state” entities like street gangs? Aridoamerica’s form of street gangs have been exported to the rest of the US and the world.

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Also, do you have a sociology or anthropology background? You do great research and synthesize separate strains of data very well.

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Aspen's avatar

I appreciate the compliment, I’m planning on going over the pseudomorphosis which is heavily the fault of LA. As for central California, I think California in general is a fairly unified geography due to the Central Valley (which is also flanked by mountains) and could easily form a new nation state or empire within the new culture.

Northern California is less certain but I think it’ll become a frontier between this new California and Cascadia (which I think also has chances of being a power in the new culture due to it mostly tilting Aridoamerican in its culture besides the coastal cities). There’s a big enclave of Maya farmers in interior Washington.

You will hear me say it more here, but I view California as a failed Midwestern colony, exemplified in LA. It’s an entity with an early history very similar to Texas however it was flooded by Anglos due to gold and later Hollywood from the east and many brought their politics with them. Los Angeles was built within a 20-30 year time period. Ridiculously fast for a world city. Many of the tensions within California are a mostly Midweststern aristocracy and the politics they brought which makes up the 50s homeowner and celebrity class contending with the true aridoamerican people. This class originally let them in as slaves to work the fields and be maids, but now they seem apt and willing to claw California back from these highly decadent people. LA also steals a lot from the forming culture and exports it to the world. There’s good reason there’s no Dutch Moroccan subculture in Italy or Bolivia, but there’s many emulators of Chicano culture across Asia. The election actually just exposed the cultural divide.

In short, Los Angeles is segregated because it’s a colony of the 20-50s Midwest, which had segregationist tendencies, and many of the northern states still having corrosive social issues over it. Even if many espouse wokeness (and LA is a center of it), they still go out of their way to enforce this segregationist caste system.

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Roman's avatar

I suppose you have train your mind to think of possible cultural decentralization (as opposed to the last 6-7 decades of cultural centralization).

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Aspen's avatar

I’m sure there will be a Carolingian entity that could develop, but the area seems to favor decentralization much like Europe and less like proper civilization states like China

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Roman's avatar

In California, culturally Southern California is San Diego to Bakersfield. Starting around Fresno to Sacramento is Northern California. North of Sacramento is the State of Jefferson(which includes parts of Oregon). More PNW, far-rightists and far-leftists. The Humboldt county and other cannabis outfits.

The LA segregation is still somewhat enforced for sure, but in soft ways.

My gr-grandfather built homes on the Arizona/Mexico border. In traditional styles for migrant communities. Here is a black church in Eloy, AZ https://www.loc.gov/resource/fsa.8c24124/ it is similar to traditional Akimel O’odham ki structures.

What do you think about the ethnogenesis of Aridoamericans in regards to pre and post air conditioner times?

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I really like the thatched roof of that structure. As for ethnogenesis, I think we’ve seen that begin to happen but it’ll take time. I think there will be future ethnic groups concentrated to land areas (since we live in an era with guns). New Mexican Hispanics are mostly entirely there, unfortunately the 50s made them get rid of their Spanish dialect. Think one is also forming around the Sonora desert, one around California, on around Texas and northeast Mexico, one around southern Mexico, one around Utah, one around Colorado, and multiple around the cascades. The Local Amerindians seem to also be forming one as well as many tribes begin to merge.

Of course it’ll be much more complicated than my statement. The area allows for geographic disunity and decentralization, and sky islands which are prime real estate, could complicate this even more with city states.

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