Just as in the religions on which Durkheim focused, where the tribe’s and clans’ worship of their sacred symbols are real, so the worship of whiteness is real, made concrete through the sacred symbols of white Jesus, the merging of the cross and the American (or Confederate) flag, and, increasingly, the symbolism of firearms. Theologically, these believers may be worshipping a god, but sociologically, in Durkheim’s terms, what they are worshipping is whiteness.
