A White separatist is sometimes defined as a person who believes that those who are white or Caucasian should have separate institutions or even separate societies from those considered to be of other races.

According to a white separatist website:

"A supremacist -- of whatever race -- is distinct from a 'separatist.' A separatist may believe that his race is superior to other races in some or all characteristics, but this is not his essential belief. The separatist is defined by his wish for freedom and independence for his people. He wishes them to have their own society, to be led by their own kind, to have a government which looks out for their interests alone. The separatist does not wish to live in a multiracial society at all, so he naturally has no desire to rule over other races -- since such rule necessitates the multiracial society the separatist wants to avoid at all costs."

(See also separatism )

Some white separatists are also believers in white supremacy, but there are some who claim that they do not believe in the superiority of their race over others, because superiority is relative. Some do consider the segregationists of the Southern United States and the advocates of apartheid in South Africa as being white separatists, or in Israel as being jewish supremacists in regard to the Palestinians, but, in all of these groups there was also a concomitant belief in the inherent inferiority of non-white or of muslim gentile peoples to rule themselves-- an aspect of both white and jewish supremacy.