US Edition‘Whites-only’ Group Draws Bipartisan Rebuke over Potential Move to Missouri
MISSOURI, JUL 31 – Return to the Land plans Missouri expansion despite bipartisan condemnation for its whites-only policy; Arkansas probe found no legal violations but critics warn of renewed segregation.
- Return to the Land, a whites-only community of around 40 people on 160 acres in northeast Arkansas, is considering expansion to southwest Missouri.
- The group explicitly bans Jews and non-whites, citing their mission to separate from modern society and preserve traditional values, while facing bipartisan outrage.
- Missouri and Arkansas officials, including Attorney General Tim Griffin, who opened an investigation, found no violations of state or federal law by the group so far.
- Co-Founder Eric Orwoll defended the community as not a hate group, asserting, "We are not a hate group" and that they prefer being among their own people.
- Local leaders and the Springfield City Council rejected the group's vision, emphasizing that racism has no place and declaring such divisive communities unacceptable in Missouri.
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‘Exactly how the last nightmare started’: Group in the Ozarks set up whites only community, claim it’s their legal right
Some people may refer to America as the land of the free but others take those supposed freedoms to the extreme. Now a community in Arkansas has set up a whites only town and it seems they might actually have a legal argument to back them up. The community of around 40 like-minded Millennial and Gen Z individuals has set up shop on 150 acres of land in the Ozarks and they call their group “Return to the Land.” In a documentary made by SkyNews th…
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‘Whites-only’ group draws bipartisan rebuke over potential move to Missouri
House Majority Leader Alex Riley speaks April 10 at a news conference in the Missouri House (Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications).The possibility of a “whites-only” organization from Arkansas expanding into Missouri has inspired bipartisan outrage from state lawmakers and local officials who decry the group as racist and antisemitic. The private membership association, called Return to the Land, owns 160 acres in northeast Arkansas, accord…
'Whites-only' community wants to expand to Springfield, Missouri. Locals say they're not welcome
The Arkansas group Return to the Land, which explicitly bans Jews and non-whites from membership, is exploring the idea of expanding into the Springfield area. Both Democratic and Republican legislative leaders from the area spoke out against the plan.
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