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In New Hampshire, voters have an interesting choice. Ryan J. Murdough is campaigning not on change so much as similarity. His message: Keep New Hampshire white.

“I would like to preserve what we have before it gets totally out of control,” Murdough, a 30-year-old father of two young boys, said last week. “The more it becomes non-white, the more it’s going to become a much different place to live, for white people especially.”

Well, yes. It will be far more interesting, peppered with culture and stories and music and people who come from a different place but are still people. Only, Ryan just doesn’t see it that way.

Whatever you do, don’t call Ryan a racist. He’s not a racist, he claims, because racists have to hate others. He doesn’t hate them; he just doesn’t want them in his town.

So please, don’t call him a racist. He says that’s not true.

“I would ask you about your version of racist,” Murdough said. “The word does not have a specific definition. If someone says, ‘You seem to hate people who aren’t white,’

I say no, so I can’t really be a racist, because I don’t hate them. I just don’t want to live around areas that are heavily, predominantly non-white.”

Ahem. He’s dead wrong on this one. Here’s the Merriam-Webster definition of racism:

1 : a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race

2 : racial prejudice or discrimination

So he’s not a white supremacist (though that is certainly questionable). He’s clearly a racist, simply by arguing for discrimination against people who are ‘non-white’.

Ryan Murdough, in his own written words:

For far too long white Americans have been told that diversity is something beneficial to their existence. Statistics prove that the opposite is true. New Hampshire residents must seek to preserve their racial identity if we want future generations to have to possibility to live in such a great state. Affirmative action, illegal and legal non-white immigration, anti-white public school systems, and an anti-white media have done much damage to the United States of America and especially New Hampshire. It is time for white people in New Hampshire and across the country to take a stand. We are only 8 percent of the world’s population and we need our own homeland, just like any other non-white group of people deserve their own homeland.

What will happen to New Hampshire once it is only 60, 50 or 40 percent white? Statistics show that areas with high non-white populations have higher rates of violent crime. New Hampshire has one of the lowest rates of violent crime in the country, but that will change as the white population percentage declines and the non-white population percentage increases.

There are no words, no arguments, no gushing-forth of facts and statistics that I could possibly bring forth to change his mind. But as a white person living in a diverse area with all of the richness different backgrounds, colors and nationalities bring, I could not disagree with his premise more.

At least New Hampshire Republicans aren’t afraid to embrace what Tea Partiers deny, but clearly represent: A small contingent of scared white folks.

By the way, is the name Murdough a colloquial form of Murdoch? It would explain a lot.