Whiteness (in relation to McPherson's article)

Whiteness (in relation to McPherson's article)- McPherson mentions that the default race of white becomes the context of cyberspace when race is ignored. She illustrates this by example of her look into so-called Souther heritage sites, who claim that they want to preserve the confederacy o the old South. However she mentions that this only serves the interest of whiteness and protecting that as that was the only group that had anything to gain from the confederacy. She says the sites often ignore race, but by doing so create a context in which white becomes the only acceptable heritage because of the context of the confederacy and omission of the rest of southern heritage. She also mentions that these sites often mention ethnicity such as "Anglo-celtic" on p. 126. This is important in understanding whiteness and race because she mentions that mentioning ethnicities removes the consideration of white itself in this context. By avoiding whiteness as a race, and mentioning European ethnicities, the sites are attempting to destroy the meaning of whiteness in their issue, and as an issue as a whole in cyberspace.