League of the South
white nationalist, Neo-Confederate organization in the U.S.
The Southern Nationalist League, formerly known as League of the South (LS), is an American white nationalist, neo-Confederate, white supremacist organization that says its goal is "a free and independent Southern republic".
Headquartered in Killen, Alabama, the group advocates for the reestablishment of the Confederate States of America, comprising Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, the Carolinas (North and South Carolina), Texas, Tennessee, and Virginia, with the additional states of Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland also being included, despite not being a part of the historical confederacy. It claims to also be a religious and social movement, advocating a return to a more traditionally conservative, Christian-oriented Southern culture.
The movement and its members are allied with the alt-right. The group was part of the neo-Nazi Nationalist Front formerly, alongside the National Socialist Movement (NSM), the now-defunct Traditionalist Workers Party (TWP) and Vanguard America (VA, since rebranded as Patriot Front). The group helped organize the Pikeville rally in Pikeville, Kentucky; the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia; and the White Lives Matter rally in Shelbyville, Tennessee. The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated it as a hate group.
History
The organization was formed in 1994 by Michael Hill and others, including attorney Jack Kershaw and Libertarian historian Thomas Woods. The League of the South was named in reference to the League of United Southerners, a group organized in 1858 to shape Southern public opinion and the Lega Nord (Northern League), a successful populist movement in Northern Italy from which the group took inspiration.
The League's first meeting included 40 men, 28 of whom formed The Southern League.
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