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American anthropologist and activist

Virginia Deane Abernethy (born 1934) is an American anthropologist, activist, and white nationalist. She is professor emerita of psychiatry at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She has published research on population demography and immigration. She ran for Vice President of the United States in 2012 alongside Merlin Miller for the American Third Position, a party that promotes white nationalism.

Virginia Deane Abernethy was born in 1934 in Cuba to American parents. She was raised in Argentina and New York City, She then worked in the Department of Psychiatry of the Vanderbilt School of Medicine, within Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee for 20 years, from 1975 to 1999. She was appointed as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, promoted to Associate Professor in 1976 and Professor in 1980. An outspoken opponent of immigration, she has called for a complete moratorium on immigration into the United States. She has countered claims of racism against her by pointing to her friendship with Jesse Lee Peterson. In a letter to The Washington Times published on September 30, 2004, she rejected their reporting of her as a "self described 'racial separatist, preferring "ethnic separatist." On June 29, 2011, the American Third Position (now the American Freedom Party), a whites only party, announced that she had joined their board of directors. Abernethy ran in election for vice president of the United States in 2012 as the running mate of Merlin Miller, who ran for president, in the 2012 U. S. presidential election, gaining a total of 12,900 votes nationally.

Her research has focused on the issues of population and culture. Her best known work discounts the demographic transition theory, which holds that fertility drops as women become more educated and contraceptives become more available. In its place, she has developed a ″fertility opportunity hypothesis", which states that fertility follows perceived economic opportunity. A corollary to the hypothesis is that food aid to developing nations only exacerbates overpopulation. She has advocated in favor of microloans to women in the place of international aid because she believes that they allow improvement in the lives of families without leading to higher fertility.

From 1989 to 1999, she served as the editor of the academic journal Population and Environment. She also served on the editorial board of The Citizen Informer, the newsletter of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC), a neo Confederate organization. She has also appeared as a guest on the CofCC affiliated radio show, The Political Cesspool hosted by James Edwards. She serves on the board of directors of the Carrying Capacity Network, an immigration reduction and sustainability organization, and also on the Board of Population Environment BALANCE, which advocates an immigration moratorium in order to balance population size with resources and the environment's capacity to cope with pollution. However, Population Environment BALANCE has characterized an organization that promotes a right wing, nativist agenda under the guise of environmentalist activism. Abernethy has written or edited several books, including: Population Politics: The Choices that Shape our Future (1993) and Population Pressure and Cultural Adjustment (1979). Abernethy has written articles that have appeared in Chronicles, The Social Contract Press, The Atlantic Monthly, and numerous academic journals. She has also made occasional contributions to the weblog VDARE, which have been republished by the Center 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." 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."

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.