Washington State is a land of extremes. Geographically, it has within its borders everything from rainforests to arid plains, windswept coastlines to fourteen thousand-foot mountains and active volcanoes. Washingtonians experience earthquakes, ice storms, floods in the wintertime, and droughts in the summer. For over a century, the western half of the State has gained notoriety for the radical left-wing actions of its residents. In 1919, over 100,000 workers shut down the city of Seattle for a day during the infamous General Strike. Eighty years later, protesters brought the same city to a halt in protest of the World Trade Organization conference. Western Washington tends to be considered by outsiders, as well as many who live in its larger cities, as a liberal, culturally diverse place, which in many ways it is. But there is another extreme present in Washington that receives relatively little attention despite its steady growth. It is the extreme right-wing. The extreme right-wing is a tangled and confusing web of small groups, including so-called patriot groups and “hate” groups. There are common threads that run throughout, including racism, sexism, anti-government sentiments, and Christianity, but they all boil down to basically one thing- White Rights. Though the agendas and methods of the different groups vary, what binds them together is the idea that whites, meaning people of Anglo or Northern European descent, are inherently entitled to the United States, and therefore should be the only land-owners and decision-makers.