Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27178151-20151113182939/@comment-70.106.140.8-20160127034422

I dont think The Stormcloaks are really that xenophobic. Sure, they are a bit distrusting of non-Nords, but all you need to say to join The Stormcloaks as a non-Nord amounts to "Skyrim is my home too, and I would be willingly to die to defend it.". And at the end of the Civil War questline, Ulfric will consider you like a brother/ sister to him, even if you are an Elf. So, they don't hate non-Nords, they simply have a hardtime believing that a non-Nord can care for Skyrim as much as a Nord could.

When they say 'Skyrim is for the Nords" they mean that Skyrim's fate should be in the hands of The Nords, not that other races can't live there.