White supremacist and apologist for the Confederacy and the Third Reich Pat Buchanan has a real corker of a column out today, suggesting that the force behind the tea party movement may be the rise of ethnic nationalism and race-based tribalism in the United States.

And ol’ Paleo Pat actually thinks that’s a good thing: New Tribe Rising?

“Is white the new black?”

So asks Kelefa Sanneh in the subtitle of “Beyond the Pale,” his New Yorker review of several books on white America, wherein he concludes we may be witnessing “the slow birth of a people.”

Sanneh is onto something. For after a year of battering as “un-American,” “evil-doers” and racists, and praise from talk-show hosts and Sarah Palin as “the real Americans,” Tea Party America seems to be taking on a new and separate identity.

Ethnonationalism — the recognition of an embryonic people that they are different from their neighbors, and the concomitant drive to live apart — is, as Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote 20 years ago, a more powerful force than any ideology, be it communism, fascism or democracy.

It’s hard to believe that this very thinly veiled racist trash is being published by the major media. This is Stormfront material.

UPDATE at 4/20/10 10:50:29 am:

I wasn’t kidding about this being Stormfront material. The Nazis know exactly what Pat’s writing about, and they absolutely love his article; one of them gushes, “This is it, this is why I came to Stormfront.” Here’s a Google cache of their post: Ethnonationalism - New Tribe Rising? - Stormfront.