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==Modern usage==

North American [[white supremacy|white supremacists]], [[White nationalism|white nationalists]], [[Neo-Nazism|Neo-Nazis]] and members of the [[alt-right]] have adopted the slogan. It gained widespread public prominence as a result of the August 2017 [[Unite the Right rally]] in [[Charlottesville, Virginia]], when participants carrying [[Tiki torch|torches]] marched on the [[University of Virginia]] campus on the night of 11 August 2017 and were recorded chanting the slogan, among others.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/12/us/charlottesville-unite-the-right-rally/index.html|title='Blood and soil': Protesters chant Nazi slogan in Charlottesville|author=Meg Wagner |publisher=CNN |date=12 August 2017|access-date=2017-08-14|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170813050554/http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/12/us/charlottesville-unite-the-right-rally/index.html|archive-date=2017-08-13}}</ref> The rally was organized to protest the town's planned removal of a statue of [[Robert E. Lee]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theweek.com/captured/718250/48-hours-charlottesville|title=48 hours in Charlottesville: A visual timeline of Charlottesville's harrowing weekend of violence|last=Hansen|first=Lauren|website=THE WEEK|date=15 August 2017|access-date=26 August 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170826015624/http://theweek.com/captured/718250/48-hours-charlottesville|archive-date=26 August 2017}}</ref> The rally remained in national news through December 2018 thanks to the trial of [[Charlottesville car attack|James Alex Fields]], a white supremacist who purposefully [[Charlottesville car attack|ran his car into a crowd of counter-protestors]], killing 32-year old paralegal Heather Heyer.<ref>{{cite news|title=Neo-Nazi convicted of murder in Charlottesville car assault that killed Heather Heyer|last=James| first=Mike|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/12/07/neo-nazi-convicted-murder-charlottesville-car-assault-killed-heather-heyer/2243848002/|newspaper=USA Today|date=7 December 2018|access-date=28 February 2019}}</ref> The chant was also heard in October 2017 at the [[White Lives Matter rally|"White Lives Matter" rally]] in [[Shelbyville, Tennessee]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Murfreesboro rally canceled as counterprotesters outnumber White Lives Matter activists |last1= Tamburin |last2= Wadhwani |first1= Adam |first2= Anita |url=http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2017/10/28/white-lives-matter-rally-murfreesboro-tn-live-updates-shelbyville-tn-stream-video/804380001/ |newspaper=[[The Tennessean]] |date=28 October 2017 |access-date=29 October 2017}}</ref>

In his 2018 farewell letter, US Senator [[John McCain]] stated that America is "a nation of ideals, not blood and soil", specifically rejecting such notions.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/web-video/sen-john-mccains-words-farewell |title=Sen. John McCain's words of farewell |work=[[Washington Week]] | publisher=[[PBS]]/[[WETA-TV|WETA]] |date=27 August 2018}}</ref>