Ozarkia

Ozarkia is a geographic and cultural region of the continental United States consisting primarily of northern Arkansas and southern Missouri. Characterized by its generally rugged, mountainous terrain and forests, Ozarkia is an overwhelmingly White, rural, and conservative area with southern culture but midwestern demographics. Many of the counties included in the contiguous Ozarkia region are of 90% European ancestry or higher.

History

The reference to 'Ozarkia' in the White Nationalist community first became prevalent after the publication of activist and author Billy Roper's book 'The Balk' in 2015, which promoted the region as a potential seedbed White ethnostate area which he opines will emerge independently as other areas of the United States become more diverse and multiculturalism inevitably trends towards balkanization, or the breakup of the United States into several more racially homogeneous and smaller nations. This idea placed Ozarkia into the running with the Pacific Northwest and other regions such as Maine and Appalachia as competitive relocation targets for White families seeking to relocate from more urban and majority nonWhite environments. Some of these refugee families anticipate an economic depression or collapse, others fear a coming civil war, while still others simply seek a safer place to raise their children among other like-minded White Nationalist families.

ShieldWall Network

Roper's White Nationalist prepper's organization, 'The ShieldWall Network', developed a strategy (Project New America) to encourage White families to move to Ozarkia (Operation Exodus) and establish an intentional community of their own while becoming 'persons of influence' in the existing community, which provided fertile recruiting ground from the overwhelmingly conservative, rural White population of Stone County, Arkansas, and its adjacent counties, which quickly emerged as the nucleus of the growing network of White families.

Other White Nationalist efforts in the Ozarkia region include Pastor Gerald L.K. Smith's Christian Identity mission work in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, where the Christ of the Ozarks statue still rises above his grave site next to the Passion Play theme park; The Knights Party (KKK) headquarters and properties in rural Boone County, Arkansas, near Zinc, and several smaller groups.