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[kerubim]

I always love a good secessionist story that's not about Texas.

"Abraham Lincoln really did a number on us," said Thomas Naylor, "He convinced the vast majority of Americans that secession is illegal, immoral and unconstitutional."

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[masterhibb]

Some of the Northern secessionists quizzed the Southern secessionists about race. The 12-year-old League of the South has been accused by the Southern Poverty Law Center of being a White-supremacist "hate group," which the League denies.

Race was only one issue where the Southern and Northern separatists showed strains beneath their common goal. Mark Thomey, of the Louisiana chapter of the league, said an independent South would not permit abortion on demand, gun control or open borders, and would not take the Ten Commandments out of courthouses.

This is what I hate about Journalists. The way I see it is that some people from a "northern" state, whatever that means since the Mason-Dixon line is no longer relevant, had their panties in a twist because they think the League of the South is a White Supremacist organization. The League members present denied this. That's pretty much it, from what I can see. I mean, even the League's "mission statement" does not once mention race, so the rest is pretty much he-said-she-said

[kerubim]

Wow, just by looking up the League's website, you did far more follow-up research than I did.

I agree though, it is interesting that the League of the South is the only group who's specific belief's were addressed in the article at all. And that is was done in the context of the racism issue. And why would a group that seems to want to carve the nation into several independent enclaves be interested in reaching a uniform manifesto?

[samsmmacle]

It's a bit hypocritical if you ask me. They want to separate from the US yet at the same time unify together to make that goal happen? That's a bit messed up.