Republicans Believe In The Great Replacement–And Vote For Black Guys With White Wives

Explaining the decline in personal prejudice and the increase in political identitarianism

Tim Scott, the lone black Republican senator, made a big announcement this month: he is finally getting married in his late 50s. The woman he asked to be his wife is a blond-haired white woman. That fact drew very little criticism in spite of the media’s claims about the growing racism within the GOP. 

Scott’s preference for white women may have driven his decision to wait so long to get married.. Running as a black man in South Carolina, he may have worried a white wife would have hurt his political prospects. In the state’s 2000 GOP presidential primaries, John McCain was attacked in robocalls and mailers that claimed he fathered a black daughter. The allegation hurt him in the Palmetto State’s primary. Fast forward 24 years later, and the state’s black senator proudly announces he’s engaged to a white woman to near-universal applause. Times have changed.

Scott isn’t alone in this. Pretty much every prominent black Republican is married to a white woman. Byron Donalds, John James, Daniel Cameron, Herschel Walker, Wesley Hunt, and Clarence Thomas all have a white wife. None of them hide this, and they are some of the most popular figures on the American Right.

While the American Right votes for black Republicans with blond wives, it’s also more focused on identitarian issues than ever before. Republican voters say immigration is their top concern for the 2024 election. Anti-white racism in schools and businesses is a mainstream issue on the Right. Nearly three-fourths of Trump voters believe in the Great Replacement. Donald Trump calls his Indian opponent “Nimbra” and says immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” Major conservative figures openly criticize Martin Luther King, call for an end to the Civil Rights regime, and endorse an immigration moratorium. 

Ever since Trump became the GOP frontrunner in the 2016 presidential primaries, the media obsessed over how racist the party is. An Axios report from December entitled “It's not just Trump: How racism shadows the GOP campaign” is representative of this genre. But all these articles rely more on shrieking about “dangerous” rhetoric than analyzing hard data. A 2022 PRRI survey purported to show that the GOP base was “structurally racist.” It reached this conclusion by asking boomer conservatives if they agreed with statements such as “White Americans are not responsible for discrimination against Black people in the past” and “Racial minorities use racism as an excuse more than they should.” Conservatives, obviously, were more likely to agree with such statements, so the study found they display more racism. The study is a case of defining racism down. It would be one thing if they asked “Do you hate black people?” or even “Do you believe in biological differences between the races?” to reach this conclusion. Instead, we get a survey on whether people agree with standard stuff you’d learn from Fox News. It hardly proves anything.

A better metric for personal prejudice would be to assess Americans’ views on interracial marriage. Nearly the entire American population is fine with interracial marriage, according to polling. Gallup found in 2021 that 94 percent of the population say they have no problem with mixed-race couples. Support for it is universal across all groups. Whites, non-whites, southerners, northerners, young, and old all say they’re ok with it. Every demographic group assessed by Gallup approved it by at least 90 percent. Americans over 50 evinced the lowest support for it at 91 percent. 

This is a massive change from the past. A majority of Americans didn’t approve of interracial marriage until the 1990s. Just 20 percent of Americans were ok with it in 1969, two years after the Supreme Court legalized it throughout the country. A plurality of Americans backed criminalizing interracial marriage in 1965. There was still strong opposition towards it in the South into the 2000s. Now nearly every American supports it.

Attitudes toward interracial marriage is the best metric to assess personal prejudice. Throughout American history, fears of miscegenation inspired Americans to back to racial restrictions. Anti-abolitionist politicians of the North and South warned that their opponents wanted white women to marry black men. (One such example is Stephen Douglas’s speeches from the Lincoln-Douglas debates.) Segregationists warned that integration would lead to an irreparable mixing of the races. (President Eisenhower tried to get Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren to hold off on school desegregation with the appeal that southerners didn’t want their daughters sitting next to “some big black bucks.”)

The racial appeals now have nothing to do with miscegenation. “Poisoning the blood” has more to do with drugs than amalgamation. Many of the public figures fixating on identity issues are non-white (Vivek Ramaswamy) or in a mixed-race marriage (J.D Vance and Chris Rufo). Even white nationalists aren’t exempt from this. While few open white nationalists run for office, two of the small number who have boasted multiracial backgrounds. Paul Nehlen was married to a Hispanic woman and Neil Kumar is half-Indian. They aren’t outliers either. There are a remarkably high number of similar guys  who have non-white wives or are non-white themselves. A recent tweet where an anon bragged about how he and his “East Asian” wife bonded over racism illustrates that point.

All this doesn’t negate white identity politics. It does undermine notions that America will split off into neatly enclosed racial states. (Where would all the white nationalists with hapa kids go?) But it also shows how different white identity politics of the future will be from the politics of the past. This doesn’t mean an acceptance of racial mixing and a “post-racial” identity. It just means working with what we have.

The most important thing is to defend “whiteness” in multiracial America. 

The Left fixates a lot on “whiteness” rather than “whites” themselves. Activists aim to abolish “whiteness” or make people unlearn it. How they define it is important to know. Here’s how the Smithsonian Institute characterizes it:

Whiteness and white racialized identity refer to the way that white people, their customs, culture, and beliefs operate as the standard by which all other groups of are compared. Whiteness is also at the core of understanding race in America. Whiteness and the normalization of white racial identity throughout America's history have created a culture where nonwhite persons are seen as inferior or abnormal.

In a since-deleted graphic, Smithsonian provided examples of whiteness. These included “Rugged individualism,” “Protestant Work Ethic,” the nuclear family, rational thinking, and a heavy emphasis on European history. Social media backlash made the museum erase the graphic, but it still rings true in how the Left sees whiteness.  Everything that made our civilization and country great is damnable. A new standard must replace whiteness. 

This multiracialism diminishes the greatness of the old Anglo-Protestant culture. It extols the racial quotas, racial wealth redistribution, extreme egalitarianism, and degraded cultural values. It also requires fewer whites in America and their history dethroned. We instead get a new, more diverse history that celebrates Indians, slaves, “civil rights activists,” and rappers instead of the men who built this country. 

That’s a nightmare that white identity politics wants to save America from. America will only be America if the culture and heritage of the core population is preserved. To erase that is to erase America itself.

There’s an implicit understanding of that among the conservative masses. They’re no longer bothered by a black Republican with a white wife, but they are bothered when they feel like a stranger in their own homeland. They accept social changes their grandparents would’ve revolted over, but that doesn’t mean they accept dispossession.

Understanding this is key to the path forward. We’re going to see more soyjaking over BASED black Republicans. Most of them will have a white wife. Most of our audience won’t be bothered by that. None of these people will want an “ethnostate.” But they still will want an America that looks like them. 

The old personal prejudices are gone, but whites are still here. And they want to live in a country that champions whiteness, not eliminates it.