{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Oh one thing to think about: Los Angeles - the last place we had a religious revival from - has traditionally been...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/620388948223590400/", "html": "<p>Oh one thing to think about: Los Angeles - the last place we had a religious revival from - has traditionally been significantly, substantially, literally one of the more pro-Nazi parts of America.</p><p>Has to do mostly with migration patterns, boomed with a lot of Scando-German midwesterners (and after WWI a lot of German-friendly ex-Ottoman immigrants).</p><p>Like, all this was masked by the way its WWII effort was locally understood as mainly against <i>Japan</i> (\ufffcwhich helped align California&rsquo;s substantial non-Japanese Asian population, identifying with lands colonized by the Japanese Empire)</p><p>Like there were actual Nazi cults in the hills, the whole surfer hippie thing was a recapitulation of German <i>wandervogel</i> with actual Nazi mystic elements, the Falling Down surplus store with the secret Nazi room (and kinda the Gimp in Pulp Fiction) and American History X reflected real LA things.</p><p>Police forces usually lag their local populations (an interesting exception is how the Boston Irish used it to push out the older WASPs) and like, &ldquo;the LAPD is a bunch of Nazis&rdquo;, no that was real (so is &ldquo;they since retired and helped settle Northern Idaho as an armed white ethnostate&rdquo;)</p><p>That means The Rocketeer, where the hero fights the Nazis from 1938 LA, is kind of a nyah-nyah from the 80s (punk, anti-Reagan) antifascist tendencies</p>"}