Ethnonationalist?

No post yesterday.  Can't really say why, just didn't feel it.  Did a spot of OT, came home and lounged.  Pretty much a nothing day.  No particular shame.  Today is a fall Sunday.  Laundry is in the dryer, I have the bread start going.  Maybe some football watching, maybe a spot of cleaning.

Screed:

Spoke with C. the other day, and unless I was mistaken, I think that in the course of the conversation I was referred to as as an "Ethnonationalist".  Wow.  Now, I have a clear written record of seriously limiting immigration, I can't for the life of me figure out where the aforementioned label came about.  Especially in light of my mongrel heritage.  I think that I have been repeatedly referred to over the years as "not quite white".

My desire for limitation is not in any way about the people wanting in.  Truth be told, I don't blame them a damn bit.  They are trying to escape from what we are desperately trying to keep away.  The more people of any flavor that we let in is another brick in the wall that seals us into our fate.  I hope that people will forgive me for not wanting to hurry that process for my descendants.  In a sense, the phrase from Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" comes to mind here. 

That the makeup of the US is currently overwhelmingly white is not the issue here.  Within the "white" race there are as many divisions as there without.   Nope, I am in no way supporting the "white" ethnicity, as such a thing doesn't truly exist.  What I am hoping for is a new synthesis of culture for the folks who are already here.  I don't really care how they got here at this point, such a thing would be futile (not that futility is an unknown thing in this neck of the clear cut).  But the change in worldview and the cultural accommodation and integration into a new cultural norm cannot be done by fiat, it's sole currency is time. 

When you add the not-all-that-distant decline of the oil economy and the increasingly urgent coming of environmental decay, we might be looking at trashing the current industrial baronies and over-financialized economic model in favor of something considerably less.  The current population is going to have to share a pie that is considerably smaller than what is currently available, and us Americans have never been noted for our willingness to change or our open embrace of frugality.

So, truthfully I tend not to see myself as an ethnonationalist.  I will freely accept a designation of economic/environationalist though.  Even worse, the nation that I envision myself a part of is Cascadia as defined by the Columbia River Drainage.