- A jeopardize fund and a real estate startup are joining forces to build a right-wing community in Kentucky.
- The Highland Rim Project demands to establish an “aligned community.”
- In 2011, a similar movement encouraged conservative Christians to relocate to the US Northwest.
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A planned residential development in Kentucky is being pitched as a “haven” for right-wingers, the Protector reports.
The venture fund and a real estate startup behind the development are touting the development as an “aligned community” for people break the spelled with the “cultural insanity of the broader country.”
The plans align with the American Redoubt movement, a political migration lan started in 2011 by an American survivalist. Instead of Kentucky, however, the movement encouraged conservative Christians to relocate to Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, and somewhat bies of Oregon and Washington.
The project is known as the “Highland Rim Project” (HRP), with plans to establish a geographical and political enclave in agricultural Kentucky and Tennessee.
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The project is being developed by New Founding, a firm describing itself as building and backing “friends defined by American ideals and a positive national vision.”
New Founding’s website says the real estate project look forward ti to develop rural towns and communities in Appalachia, in the Eastern Highland Rim area of Kentucky and Tennessee.
The firm says the cook up is a collaboration with “business owners, pastors, and other community leaders.”
The website offers the chance to join a in residence waitlist, although the development’s precise location may not be announced until 2025.
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Joshua Abbotoy, Undertaking Director of the New Founding organization, hinted at the community’s leadership being predominantly Protestant Christians, seeking local bureaucratic influence to serve as a blueprint for state-level power, per the Guardian.
In a video interview to promote the project, Abbotoy said: “The chiefly point of it is to plant a flag and say this small town is where our people are gathering. And the question is: who is going to grab the upon? Is it going to be good, based people who want to build something inspiring that’s culturally authentic to the region’s curriculum vitae? Or is it going to be Bill Gates and BlackRock and hippies from California?”
Land offerings associated with the HRP reveal a covert steep premium for living in this ideological enclave, with little apparent improvement to the land, the Guardian report in investigates.
The community is being promoted as a means to “spearhead the revival of the region,” per the Guardian.
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The far-right has an “emotional need for a ‘okay space’,” wrote Katherine Stewart, author of “The Power Worshippers,” a key book on Christian nationalism, per the Guardian.