Newlands was an outspoken white supremacist who advocated for those beliefs as a senator. In a 1909 journal article titled "A Western View of the Race Question" published in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Newlands wrote that Black people were “a race of children.” He went on to argue that black people posed a threat to the country, "It (the country) should start immediately upon the serious consideration of a national policy regarding the people of the black race now within our boundaries, which, with a proper regard for humanity, will minimize the danger which they constitute to our institutions and our civilizations." In the piece, he also expressed fear that people from Asia would immigrate into the country and take over the West Coast: "Asia, with nearly a billion people of the yellow and brown races, who, if there were no restrictions, would quickly settle upon and take possession of our entire western coast and intermountain region." He continues to describe Chinese and Japanese people using stereotypes saying, "the Chinese, who are patient and submissive, would not create as many complications as the presence of the Japanese, whose strong and virile qualities would constitute an additional element of difficulty." He was also a white nationalist who sought to secure the United States as a homeland for whites. In 1905, he advocated for the paid resettlement of African Americans to the Caribbean. In an article written in the "New York Times" on June 17, 1912, Newlands wrote, “I believe this should be a white man’s country and that we should frankly express our determination that it shall be.” During the 1912 Democratic National Convention, he proposed for the Democratic Convention platform a “White Plank" that would advocate for repeal the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution and restrict of immigration to whites.