for Immigration Studies (CIS), an organisation which the SPLC describes as being a hate group. In a blog post circulated by CIS in 2012, she said, responding to Karl Rove, the George W. Bush administration strategist, "those who advocate continued mass immigration choose the path of national suicide." At a shared conference of the American Freedom Party and the Council of Conservative Citizens in June 2018 at the Montgomery Bell State Park in Tennessee, Abernethy was a speaker along with Kevin MacDonald, also a leading member of the AFP, and David Duke who was the principal speaker. In 2012, the Anti-Defamation League referred to Abernathy as an "unabashed white supremacist", and the Southern Poverty Law Center called her a "full-fledged professor of hate," adding her to a list of 30 new activists heading the radical right. Abernethy denied that she was a "white supremacist," preferring to describe herself as an "ethnic separatist." Protect Arizona Now She was involved in Arizona's Proposition 200 campaign. She was Chair of the National Advisory Board of the Protect Arizona Now (PAN) committee which promoted Proposition 200 in that state's 2004 election. Proposition 200, which passed, limited undocumented immigrants access to government benefits and to require proof of citizenship for registering to vote. During the campaign, she replied to a journalist's question about her views by stating how she distinguished between being a separatist, rather than a supremacist: "Groups tend to self-segregate. I know that I'm not a supremacist. I know that ethnic groups are more comfortable with their own kind." References External links Anthropologist proposes link between per capita energy use and fertility rate - Vanderbilt University news release (archived copy) 1934 births Living people 2012 United States vice-presidential candidates 21st-century American women politicians 21st-century American politicians Academic journal editors Alt-right writers Alt-right politicians Anti-immigration activists American conservationists American non-fiction environmental writers American white supremacists American women anthropologists Council of Conservative Citizens American expatriates in Cuba Development specialists Female candidates for Vice President of the United States Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Vanderbilt University alumni Vanderbilt University faculty Wellesley College alumni Riverdale Country School alumni American Freedom Party politicians