Kinism is the belief that the God-ordained social order for mankind is "tribal and ethnic" and focus on "loving one's own kind". Kinists advocate the idea that extended families should live together in large groups. It is an offshoot of Christian Reconstructionism that originated among anti-immigration traditionalists in the Southern United States.[1] Some Kinists have called for the adoption of laws against miscegenation, preventing immigration of anyone not white, and expelling all Jews and Arabs, as well as only allowing landholding white men age 21 or older to vote.[2]
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Kinism is primarily an offshoot of the Neo-Confederate movement and Christian Reconstructionism; and also embracing such ideas as Theonomy, Postmillennialism, Chivalry, Patriarchy, Courtship, Quiverfull, Homeschooling, Agrarianism, White separatism, and Western civilization.[1][3] Some Kinists were associated with the League of the South, one member stated “The non-white immigration invasion is the ‘Final Solution’ for the ‘white’ problem of the South, Whites face genocide. We believe the Kinism statement proposes a biblical solution for all races. If whites die out, the South will no longer exist.”[2]
The Southern Poverty Law Center has described kinism as "a new strain of racial separatism that wants America broken up into racial mini-states."[4] Douglas Wilson suggests that it is a "white pride movement" that goes beyond gratitude for one's culture to "racial animosity" and "mocking and making fun of blacks for the race."[5] Parnell McCarter called Kinism "the wrong solution to the real problem" of a "multi-cultural, multi-civilization nation." [6]