Northwest Territorial Imperative

The Northwest Territorial Imperative is an idea that has been popularized since the 1980s within some white nationalist and white separatist groups in the United States. According to it, adherents of these groups are encouraged to relocate to a five-state region of the Northwestern United States — viz., Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Western Montana or the western part at least to Interstate 15. Northern California, Alaska, Wyoming, British Columbia, Alberta, Yukon, and Northwest Territories are sometimes also included. The intent is to eventually declare the region an "Aryan homeland", making it a form of settler colonialism.

Proponents of the idea

The primary proponent of this idea was Richard Girnt Butler (1918–2004), leader of the Aryan Nations. A secondary supporter was Robert Jay Mathews, who lived in Metaline Falls, Washington and advocated further colonization of the area along with David Lane who wrote a fictional short story advancing a form of the idea titled KD Rebel. Another major exponent of Northwest Migration was Harold Covington (1953-2018) of the Northwest Front.

See also

• Cascadia (independence movement)
• White ethnostate
• White nationalism
• Republic of New Afrika