The name "VDARE" and the site's logo, the head of a white doe, refer to Virginia Dare, the first child born to English settlers in the New World in the late 16th century. Dare disappeared along with every other member of the Roanoke Colony. "Anti-Immigration in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia" explains that "For Brimelow, Anglo-Saxon Americans and their culture are in danger of disappearing like Virginia Dare; he writes that he considered adding a fictional vignette at the end of his book "Alien Nation" (1995), in which the last white family flees Los Angeles, which had been overrun by the crime and pollution caused by its non-white residents."