In 2011, James Wesley Rawles, a former US military intelligence officer born and raised in Northern California, dubbed the region including Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and parts of eastern Washington and eastern Oregon the American Redoubt. In a now infamous blog post, Rawles identified this region of the country as the last fortress for traditional Americans to protect themselves against what he predicts will be an economic and political crisis. “I believe that it is time for freedom-loving Christians to relocate to something analogous to “Galt’s Gulch” on a grand scale,” Rawles wrote.
