The Death of Particularist White Identity

...  At least 36 Columbus monuments have been torn down since the 1970s. Many refuse to celebrate his holiday, having renamed it “Indigenous Peoples’ Day.”...

Columbus’s public fate reflects America’s growing intolerance for particularist white identities. These identities allow–or once allowed–white Americans to express pride in who they are and where they come from...

Whites aren’t allowed to have ethnic identities with real history, only non-whites are. Whites are only allowed to identify with a shallow and inclusive mass culture...

The New South exemplifies this development. For generations, the South venerated its Confederate heroes and symbols... 

Their pride wasn’t revanchist; it was a way to honor history, common ancestry, and the land... But all that has been destroyed...

Another contributing factor to the demise of ethnic identities is the death of WASPdom. The Anglo-Protestant majority has cast off any special identity for itself...

As particularist identities die out among whites, the system encourages non-whites to flaunt theirs as much as possible...

It’s time to uphold an authentic American identity that gives the founding stock–and those who assimilated into it - a meaningful sense of who they are.