IN THE quiet corners of Texas, Montana, and Tennessee, a curious and pitiful phenomenon is taking shape, a self-imposed exile where a handful of Afrikaners have decided to flee democracy, diversity, and dignity to recreate an imagined utopia in the heart of conservative America.
The so-called Afrikaner resettlement programme, a project promoted as a way to "preserve culture" in the face of alleged persecution, is not the act of a brave people reclaiming their identity.
It is the final, embarrassing retreat of a failed nationalism, rootless, paranoid, and delusional.
Let’s dispense with the myth from the outset: there is no “white genocide” in South Africa. No co-ordinated campaign. No war on Afrikaners.
There is crime, yes, as there is across the country for everyone, but the narrative peddled by these…