{"id":62255,"date":"2021-11-15T15:36:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T15:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62255"},"modified":"2021-11-15T15:37:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T15:37:26","slug":"long-before-charlottesville-great-replacement-theory-found-its-champion-in-a-racist-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62255","title":{"rendered":"Long before Charlottesville, \u2018great replacement theory\u2019 found its champion in a racist senator"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long before Charlottesville, \u2018great replacement theory\u2019 found its champion in a racist senator<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a>
\n2021-11-15<\/p>\n

Martha Hamilton<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A 1939 photo of Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo<\/a> of Mississippi<\/a>. (Harris & Ewing Collection\/Library of Congress)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Four years ago, torch-bearing \u201cUnite the Right<\/a>\u201d demonstrators, including Ku Klux Klan<\/a> members and neo-Nazis<\/a>, marched into Charlottesville<\/a>, shouting, \u201cJews will not replace us\u201d and \u201cWhite lives matter.\u201d The next day, they clashed with counter-protesters, leaving one woman dead and a nation stunned.<\/p>\n

Two-dozen participants in the rally are now on trial in a civil case, accused of conspiracy to commit racially motivated violence.<\/p>\n

Some of the Charlottesville demonstrators were motivated by an ideology known as the \u201cgreat replacement theory<\/a>,\u201d which warns that an increase in the non-White population fueled by immigration will destroy White and Western civilization.<\/p>\n

That ideology has inspired a lot of recent violence, including the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings<\/a> in New Zealand<\/a>, where the shooter warned of \u201cWhite genocide\u201d before pleading guilty to 51 murders, 40 attempted murders and engaging in a terrorist act.<\/p>\n

But the great replacement theory isn\u2019t new. More than 70 years ago, a U.S. senator published a book<\/a> warning of the same destruction of White civilization. And as with the Charlottesville defendants, his incitements to racial violence that gave him a spotlight also got him into serious trouble.<\/p>\n

Theodore G. Bilbo<\/a> had twice been governor of Mississippi<\/a> before he served in the U.S. Senate from 1935 to 1947, when \u201cthe growing intolerance among many whites toward public racism and anti-Semitism\u201d led to his fall, according to an account<\/a> in the Journal of Mississippi History<\/em><\/a>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Long before Charlottesville, \u2018great replacement theory\u2019 found its champion in a racist senator The Washington Post 2021-11-15 Martha Hamilton A 1939 photo of Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo of Mississippi. (Harris & Ewing Collection\/Library of Congress) Four years ago, torch-bearing \u201cUnite the Right\u201d demonstrators, including Ku Klux Klan members and neo-Nazis, marched into Charlottesville, shouting, \u201cJews […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,1459,26,20],"tags":[32381,2875,18747,18746,2581],"class_list":["post-62255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mississippi","category-politics","category-usa","tag-martha-hamilton","tag-the-washington-post","tag-theodore-bilbo","tag-theodore-g-bilbo","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62260,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62255\/revisions\/62260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}