Meet the Secessionist Group Waiting for the Collapse of US Empire So the "South Can Rise Again"

Southern Poverty Law Center / By Janet Smith and Ryan Lenz

Meet the Secessionist Group Waiting for the Collapse of US Empire So the "South Can Rise Again"
The League of the South (LOS) pines for the independence denied the region by federal troops 150 years ago.
November 30, 2011 |


Since its bookish beginnings as a group dominated by academics in 1994, the League of the South (LOS) has been obsessively driven to glorify Southern history and culture, pining for the independence denied the region by federal troops 150 years ago.

But over the years, the neo-Confederate group’s platform grew to be distinctly racist, with the goal of building a theocratic South defined by “the cultural dominance of the Anglo-Celtic people and their institutions,” as its president, former Stillman College professor Michael Hill, once put it. At the same time, its early rhetoric angrily demanding that the rest of the country treat the South with more respect was replaced with explicit calls for a second secession from the “ungodly” North.

Now, the LOS agenda appears to be evolving even further, this time away from the ivory tower. Beginning in 2007, when its national conference was titled “Southern Secession: Antidote to Empire and Tyranny,” each year has seen further and more militant dedication to that idea. The theme in 2008 was “Surviving the Empire’s Collapse” — an idea of survivalist resistance that similarly has since been echoed each year with increasing enthusiasm.

During its national conference this July in Abbeville, S.C. — the self-proclaimed “birthplace and deathbed of the Confederacy” — the LOS continued in the same vein of preparing for the day the federal government collapses and the South rises again. “The mantra (that) violence, or the serious threat thereof, never settles anything is patently false,” Hill said in a prepared speech that was later posted on the group’s website. “History shows that it indeed does settle many things. Please don’t forget this — your enemy hasn’t.” ............(more)

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Almost instantly (as soon as their representatives decamp from DC)
we will again have a sane, functioning Federal Government.

We'll probably even have a balanced budget!

Tesha

The only problem I see with Dixie seceding again is getting my family out of the South. They might end up enslaved.

Otherwise, go ahead and secede, Dixie. Do America a favor, but let my family go.

my daughter-in-law was born and raised here in the south (TN). I have a grandchild who is close to her daddy and us. I think my daughter-in-law would move with us. There would be no way I would stay here. I couldn't stand my grandkid being raised a racist. My daughter-in-law isn't racist but her grandpa is. My son has told him not to talk about hating miniorities.

We'll get you political asylum.

Don't forget to bring the kids, in-laws, and grandkids so their minds don't get poisoned by racism.

high enough to kiss a good yankee's ass.

It is a FACT that those southern states take in more income from the government than they pay. So good riddance to you and don't let the door hit you on the way out. Go be your racist dumbass selves. You'll raise the average IQ of US citizens once you leave.

starting with Cuba, and by extending itself to the west and south.

If they had succeeded, how Anglo-Celtic would the CSA have ended up being?

I'm fine with it, but we need to find a good place to live outside of the South.

General on either side, was shot by his own men only to die from the infected wound, up until then the Confederacy was doing quite well in the East, or perhaps God didn't want the South to secede?



Thanks for the thread, marmar.

:evilgrin:

Then "Build the dang fence!"...

The southern states have been a drag on the social conditions of this nation for over a century.

Someone once remarked that if there were no South, the US would be more like a Western European/Canadian welfare state and social democracy.

If only that could happen...

Many Americans have a "it could never happen here" mentality on succession and national disintegration, our civil war not withstanding. It's much like invasion, enemy bombardment, or territorial takeovers; those things happen elsewhere. Our 50 states are sacrosanct.

Many Americas, maybe, but not all. It has become clear that many southerners never felt that way. The urge to secede seems to be just below the surface, at least for some.

An interesting book on how the US could become undone, through southern succession or otherwise is The Untied States of America, by Juan Enriquez. I recommend it.