User:Isabellasiragusa/New sandbox

Ever since the Confederate States of America's loss in the Civil War, the people who had lived in those states at the time--no matter what race they were--had to start the fight for jobs, power, and other more unimportant things against each other within their own states. At this point in the 18th century United States, the white population had felt an incessant need to be superior to, and more successful than, blacks--both from social and economic standpoints. Before the war, whites were easily above blacks; however, now slavery was abolished. Although this did not mean that blacks were now equal to whites by any means, it was just the beginning of the many steps to achieving minority equality. For now, blacks were at least not considered property of the white man throughout the southern states. This, consequently, instilled fear in the white population--would their race not reign supreme forever? Whenever a group is afraid of losing its identity and power, especially if it is over another group of people, the former proceeds to make radical moves to keep its position over the former. Weakness was not an option. Following the defeat of the Confederate States of America, the Ku Klux Klan(KKK) was founded as an insurgent group with the goal of maintaining the Southern racial system throughout the Reconstruction Era. The creation of this group was able to instill fear in African Americans while, in some cases, filling white Americans with pride in their race and reassurance in the fact that they will stay 'on top'. The message they gave to people around them was that, even though the Confederate States did not exist anymore, the same principle remained in their minds: whites were superior.

Even among European cultures and people that were considered Aryan, the Nazis considered the Nordic race and German culture to be superior to other Aryan races and cultures, thus making them far less Pan-European than groups that identify themselves as White Nationalist. In the span of the years 1945 to 2003, Germany went through the development of the modern Antifa, the anti-fascist group of people against those with Nazi beliefs. In 1943, Stalin got rid of the Communist International, or Comintern, which brought together multiple countries that supported the idea of world communism; however, many countries were now coming together in formation of the anti-fascist organization that was used to monitor neo-Nazi activities. Antifa was organized by those on the left with the primary motivation of doing away with fascism and nazism in Germany. After many years, the movement began its spread to the United States in 1987, but on more of a platform related to anti-racism, since people believed that Americans would be more likely to encounter a racist group than a fascist one. It was so easy to spread across the ocean because Antifa is not a very organized group; so, with no leader or central location, it became easier for more, smaller, branches to pop up around the world with little to no resistance. However, although this is the case, it also is the reason that it becomes difficult to do any work as a "mass movement" throughout multiple countries. Despite this lack of 'togetherness' and focus on moving around in secrecy, the group still makes sure that neo-Nazi groups do not have as big of an impact as they potentially could.