The locust is an insect that comes in many varieties, all of which are ultimately synonymous with great and rapid movements that are destructive to the destination and whatever else lies between that and the swarm. As such, we associate them globally with famine, death, and desolation. Our very word for their swarms is a “plague” – a plague of locusts being both a very literal and theatrical description. With how often they’ve been a menace either in the Bible or Classical/Medieval histories and accounts, I have wondered at times, did the locust ever note how destructive it was? Did the swarms of insects have even the remotest concept of self-awareness?
The answer, when dealing with a particular breed of locust we suffer in modernity, is undoubtedly “no.” The type of locust I refer to is endemic to both Dixie and the Mountain West: Locusta Yankeetus, the scientific Latin name for the carpetbagger/transplant. These are a people who, with reckless abandon and zero hesitation, migrate in the millions to places that logically cannot sustain them. They move to some of the most arid, water deprived places in this hemisphere with zero thought to what such mass movements of people would do to the communities already there, not to mention the land and water resources to sustain them. Which leads to my aforementioned question: is the locust self-aware? They are not, and it is evident with one of their foremost topics to rattle on about, that topic being conservation and environmental stewardship. They are intellectually lazy, morally repugnant, and so wrapped up in their own warped zealotry, that they cannot comprehend their own malice or avarice.
The Left has gone on for years about their commitment to sustainable resources and communities, as well as the buzzword phrase that is “Climate Change.” They do this while propping up globalism, endless urban development, and mass migrations of people both within and without; anyone who can think critically or logically would understand rather quickly how these stated values do not match with their actions or policies. Beyond that, why do these transplants even come? Almost universally, it falls into one of the following: desire for cheap land/services, wanting to escape from the urban cesspits they hail from, and employment opportunities. Their migration always coincides with bringing their own transplant baggage, as well as the inevitability of devastating the area and transforming it into a twisted facsimile of their previous home. How can someone lack awareness that badly? Simple answer is that they have internalized a narrative where they are moralistic crusaders; those who reject them are the enemy, the non-believer, and they feel they bring enlightenment and progress wherever they go. But all they truly bring us is destruction, like the locust plagues of old.
While Dixie has her own share of carpetbagger issues, the focus here is on the ones swarming the West, resulting in states like Idaho, Utah, Colorado, and Arizona experiencing insane amounts of growth within the last ten to fifteen years. What these states had in abundance for a long time was valuable mineral/oil/timber/agricultural resources, land to roam and develop, and with low taxes and cost of living. Twenty years ago, they were all firm red states. Two are now blue, and the other pair are turning purple at an alarming speed. What they’ve acquired in more recent years has been an explosion in tech sector jobs, particularly Arizona and Colorado – career paths that are almost exclusively white collar and the domain of transplants, bringing the other ill gained acquisition, a host of progressive voters. Giant water intensive tech industry compounds, Amazon warehouses, distribution centers, etc., have sprung up like weeds and it only worsens by the day. Suburbs now rule the land when moderate sized towns and rural dwellings used to be the staple. Phoenix is the fastest growing metro area in the nation, it did not and currently does not have the resources to sustain that growth, let alone what was already there. A frequent discussion in these parts is the future of water resources, and while everyone can agree the future looks grim, somehow, no one in power or with money thinks it’s a good idea to halt the growth. And why should they? Locusts ravage and devour, and then simply move to the next field, and that is precisely what they will do here.
I recently had an exchange with a man from New York, one who ranted endlessly about how dire “Climate Change” is, how important the conservation efforts are especially in the Inter-Mountain West region of the country, how we, as a country and smaller communities, need to take action to save our lands. He also added that people from “back east” couldn’t truly appreciate how terrible the situation is because they hadn’t seen it firsthand, hadn’t had to live it. When I pointed out that he and people like him were the problem rather than the vague idea of “Climate Change,” he grew passive aggressive and laughed me off, as though the concerns and dispositions of the locals to the area he latched himself onto have no value or merit. So, like the typical Yankee carpetbagging crusader he is, we are simply supposed to accept his enlightenment, his purpose as our own, because he feels it is just and true. Again, the lack of self-awareness is astounding.
The transplant, by and large, has literally zero concept that his own use of the land and its resources contribute to environmental destruction, and that lecturing people about it doesn’t negate his own impact. Fundamentally, this view is narcissistic and reeks of their own internalized self-importance in that they, as the “good guys” of all social situations or policy debates, are entitled to use and develop lands and communities as they see fit. Whereas, in their view, the locals cannot manage or govern appropriately. Yet what has happened to these areas during their migrations and later political/social tenure? They are unhealthier than ever. Drought isn’t a cataclysm on the horizon, it is already here. The Salt Lake is dried up, the Colorado River is a trickling creek, and every river is irrigated or rendered into urban water supply; the increase in heat waves and decrease in agricultural output and environmental sustainability is a direct result of irresponsible water use. Does anyone in the economic or political sector seek to halt the growth? No. That is left to us residents who do not want our homes destroyed to feed the daemonic maw of the transplant’s appetite.
The economic transfer to the tech and service sectors have resulted in a complete and utter Californiacation. Cities like Boise, Denver, even Phoenix had a much different character and aura than they do now. Currently, they just feel like cities in California set against snowcapped mountains or in the middle of the Sonora desert. Speaking for Phoenix alone, 60% of the people there are Californians, or their parents were. So, while our commerce chambers and GDP whores clamor about profits and numbers, the rest of us grit our teeth looking at the environmental and economic destruction on the horizon. Once the water is all gone, and these arid environments become unsustainable, tech sectors will move, defense contractors will build new plants and facilities elsewhere, and all those transplants who claimed to care so deeply about the environment, holding over their coastal liberal “green” views, will simply move to the next field. The farmers, ranchers, railmen, and miners, they’ll all be left to rot. Serves them right, those backwards yokels didn’t do a damn thing to stop climate change! Or so it will be said.
When the United States is no more, I strongly urge our northern and coastal friends to remove the 50 stars in favor of a swarm of locusts on their Stars and Stripes banner. After all, there is a no more fitting symbol or totemic imagery for them than the insect whose congregations are termed a plague. Like plagues both medical and entomological, they fester and spread, destroying and devouring life and health, before moving on or fading away. Things that can’t last, don’t. And for the sins and follies of the parasites clutching at us, we will reap the whirlwind.
Are you gonna pull those pistols or whistle ‘Dixie’?
Well written. I’ve always enjoyed your articles
Report from the ground in Idaho:
Since the 2020 lockdowns my semi-rual county of county of 100,000 has seen new housing starts of over 5000 units, the majority of which are apartments. California tags and Teslas abound, evidence of the locusts swarming in to counsume the local social capital of our relatively peaceful and orderly community . Real estate prices have tripled. Up until recently, housing was fairly in line with the local wage rate meaning that it was still possible for someone in their early 20s to purchase a small starter home. Now the choice being offered for many of our local young people is to live a lifetime in a cramped apartment or leave the area where their family has been for generations. Of course, the local politicians and real estate agents are estatic over all of the “progress”.
This is actually a good thing for, “the south.” ( The whole big enlarged south ). As America restructures / secedes, we WANT the white patriots from everywhere moving south. We need them. “Sell” the south to them … while making it very unpleasant for the locusts. We also want the locusts NOW IN the south to want to move out. Sell “them” the north and west 🙂
Creating a very enlarged all white CSA II must be done in steps and phases. Everyone of us can do SOMETHING to help …
Sadly this is absolutely accurate, and the South is once again infested by the oblivious.
Growing up in Phoenix in the early 1950s (a pleasant, not too big city in the midst of cotton fields and citrus orchards with easy access to the beautiful desert that surrounded it), I was made aware at an early age, by all the transplants from New York, Illinois, California, etc, of just what a backward place we lived in. What awful crimes these people had committed to be sentenced to durance vile, I never knew. But Phoenix, more than any city in the West, was willing to believe the charges made against her by any and all and, seeking the world’s approval (Romans 12:2), was slavishly desperate to change her ways. So, to cite one example, when the Theosophist mountebank Frank Lloyd Wright left the Midwest and set up shop at Taliesin West in 1937 with his portfolio of borrowed ideas and weird retinue and began to lecture the tastemakers on Southwestern architecture and how to ‘live in harmony’ with one’s surroundings, they couldn’t get enough.
Phoenix’ proximity to Los Angeles and its glitter probably doomed it from the beginning. In Utah the Latter Day Saints, insular and isolated in their faith, didn’t crave the world’s good opinion of themselves until recently but alas, that is changing and so too are Idaho and Utah. Even with a plague of locusts so recent in their collective memory, they are nonetheless being swallowed up and it will take more than seagulls and sturdy pioneers wielding floursacks to beat back the invading hordes.
The Southwest won’t be able to ignore the gangrene much longer. Conned into water projects that promised the moon and stars, they literally built like there was no tomorrow. But as any swindler will tell you, the ‘mark’ usually knows on some level that he’s being had and goes along with it.
At one time, California was the second Texas, firmly conscious of its place in the Southwest, especially in the Inland Empire.
But carpetbaggers, beginning in the late 1970’s, have transformed it into a colony and political ally of Yankeedom. They’re attempting to do the same to Texas, and are doing the same to Maryland, Virginia and Caroline.