The founder of a whites-only community under construction in Arkansas has claimed in an exclusive interview with Daily Mail that he’s no supremacist after his plan sparked outrage.

The communities that many of us grew up in have changed in our lifetimes. The places that used to feel like home no longer feel that way,’ he told the Daily Mail.

‘A lot of people who have come into our communities feel hostile. Some foreign populations that are entering the country are not loyal to the country and don’t think well of white Americans.’

Orwoll, 35, spoke to Daily Mail after he posted a video on X last weekend.

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Orwoll is president of the group that is planning ‘Community 1’ or ‘The Settlement’, a 160-acre tract near Ravenden in northeast Arkansas. They hope it will be the first of a string of all-white, members-only communities nationwide.

Orwoll and his organization, Return to the Land, have in the past few weeks been slammed mainly by Jews who see their efforts as white supremacist, antisemitic and illegal – a dangerous Trump-era rebirth of segregation-era ideology.

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Blond-haired, blue-eyed and 6-feet-tall, Orwoll personifies the northern European Ãœbermensch idealized in Nazi Germany. He understands the power of that image, especially among people seeking a way out of what he calls ‘the mainstream anti-white system.’

He grew up in a working-class family in La Mirada, then and still a majority Hispanic community in southeast Los Angeles County. His whiteness and the minority status it gave him, he says, ‘Informed the beliefs that I developed’.

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Those ideas generally revolve around ‘white identitarianism,’ a movement centered on the preservation of white European identity, which followers claim is under threat from immigration, multiculturalism and globalization.

He takes care to distinguish that idea from white supremacy, the belief that whites are superior to non-whites, and white nationalism, a desire for white political and social dominance – both labels that critics have tagged on him unfairly, he says.

He moved to northeastern Arkansas, then, when COVID hit, to southern Missouri with his growing family, which now includes four kids under 10.

In 2023, a group of his YouTube audience members started meeting online weekly to discuss using land he owned in Southern Missouri to build a school and media center to push their ideological values.

When their plans grew to include a residential community, the group collectively bought the 160 acres in nearby northeast Arkansas.

Return to the Land’s limited liability corporation’s operating agreement indicates the group had eight unidentified founders who pitched in between $10,000 and $90,000 each in startup funds. By doing so, they become eligible to buy membership units or shares in the company that holds ownership of the acreage.

Because they’re selling memberships, not land, Orwoll and co-founder Peter Csere assert, they can restrict who lives there while sidestepping the federal Fair Housing Act, which prohibits housing discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, familial status, national origin or disability.

Based on applications and interviews requiring prospective residents to verify their ‘ancestral heritage,’ the group grants membership only to white people of European heritage who identify as either Christian or pagan, according to one of its postings on Substack.

It bans blacks, Hispanics and Asians, as well as Muslims and Jews, even those who are ethnically European. People it deems to be ‘militant atheists’ or LGBTQ leaning also don’t qualify.

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So far, Return to the Land members have collectively cleared trees, drilled wells, installed septic systems, built roads, a few cabins and at least one full-size house on the property.

The community has about 30 residents at any given time, says Orwoll, who is in the process of building a home there for his family.

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Return to the Land encourages families to have as many children as possible. Members also tend to be home-schoolers and are big on traditional gender roles.

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The project, he and Csere say, isn’t just about building this neighborhood in the Ozarks, but also creating a prototype on which other groups can model their own all-white communities.

Return to the Land offers business documents, community platforms and training for people to build such collectives. Orwoll notes that groups in Appalachia and the Pacific Northwest have expressed interest in launching compounds under Return to the Land’s model, but declines to share details.

Both founders expect – and even relish the prospect of – legal challenges to what the group calls its ‘ethno-culturally homogeneous homeland.’

They say their corporate structure should stand up to potential Fair Housing Act challenges, and that exclusion of certain groups falls under their First Amendment rights to freely associate and assemble.

Such a legal battle could become the Masterpiece Cakeshop case – where a baker refused to create a cake for a gay wedding – of the 2020s.

‘I think it’s an important battle that needs to happen. We need to decide as Americans whether we have a right to go our own way or be forced by a model of community decided by the government,’ Orwoll says.

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‘Do you think that once we get the right politician in office that suddenly backyard BBQs populated by blondes in sundresses and alpha dads will spawn?’ he recently asked on X.

‘The only homogeneous white communities that will be left to future generations are those that we intentionally build today.’

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