Ethnostate

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A political unit that is populated by and run in the interest of an ethnic group.

    "Richard Spencer and others fantasize about a white ethno-state — this is the Northwest Territorial Imperative, or Northwest Imperative, that would stretch from Montana to Oregon and Washington State."

Example

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"Richard Spencer and others fantasize about a white ethno-state — this is the Northwest Territorial Imperative, or Northwest Imperative, that would stretch from Montana to Oregon and Washington State."

Etymology

From ethno- + state.

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