Exceptional Anglo chauvinism, also known simply as exceptional chauvinism or later as white American chauvinism, is a term coined by Continental leaderAeneas Warren, used to describe the belief of racial superiority held by the primarily Anglo-American leaders of the pre-revolution United Commonwealth and other North American nations. As Warren described it in his 1914 work The Right to Liberation, Anglo chauvinism is the ideology of "the exploiting classes of North America, holding a dominant position in the state, declaring their nation the 'superior' nation". The term arose in reference to the idea of American exceptionalism, which held that the United States and its successor nations held a unique or exemplary status compared to other nations, and were therefore entitled or destined to play a positive role on the world stage. According to Warren, while American exceptionalism faltered with the dissolution of the United States, Anglo-American exploiters maintained a unique attitude of racial superiority to other racial groups and nations of the continent, which would have to be overcome in the pursuit of Continentalism. He explicitly called for the Continentalist Party of the United Commonwealth to defend and maintain the right of oppressed nations to self-determination, and for continental republics of the United Commonwealth to have their right to nationhood and secession respected. In modern times, Anti-Landonist critics have called Continentalism, with its advocacy for unification of the continent, a form of American exceptionalism or chauvinism, whereas Continentalists maintain that Continentalism represents the opposite form of unification, i.e. a voluntary partnership of equals rather than a white-dominated empire.
The term became popularly used in the leadup to the Union Treaty which formalized the unification of the United Commonwealth. During the Continental Revolutionary War, Warren described the cooperation of the provisional Continental government and the Landonist rebels of the rest of North America as working in equal cooperation, in 1921 declaring, "we consider ourselves, the Okaloosan CS, the Congregationalist States, and all others, to be equal and entering into a new union on an equal basis." For the Warren government it was important to stress that the United Commonwealth was not a return to the United States, in which elite-driven, Anglo-American states dominated the periphery, but rather was an equal union of partners. This doctrine was most salient in regards to Okaloosa, to which Warren stressed that the United Commonwealth should "not represent the interest of white Continentals to dominate black Continentals". After the death of Warren in 1922, the term was used interchangeably with "white American chauvinism", meant to criticize nativist and pro-white interests over ethnic minorities in North America. At the 13th Party CongressCincinnatus Scott stated: "We as White Continentals, as former benefactors of oppression, must put ourselves in a position lower than others, to buy the trust of formerly oppressed nations."
During the Callahan Era, exceptional Anglo chauvinism was a primary target of Seamus Callahan in speeches and literature, reiterating the points made by Warren of equal brotherhood in the union. However, Callahan would also be criticized by historians who consider the United Commonwealth a colonial empire or "prison of nations", coined to describe the hold that the mostly white Continental government held over the continental republics, and of the Chattanooga Pact more broadly, which the Continental government intervened in to maintain dominance. In the mid-century, the government and leaders of the Kingdom of Sierra and Astoria were regularly criticized for white-dominant racial policies, especially surrounding the Sierran Cultural Revolution, as an advanced form of exceptional Anglo chauvinism.
