League of the South

This article is about the American neo-Confederate organization. For the French political party, see League of the South (France).
Not to be confused with Southern League.

League of the South
AbbreviationLS
Formation1994; 30 years ago (1994)
TypeNon-governmental organization, Separatist group
Legal statusActive
PurposeCreation of a neo-Confederate white Southern nation, based on Protestant Christianity.
HeadquartersKillen, Alabama
Location
Region
Southern United States
FieldsPolitics
President
Michael Hill
Key people
Thomas Fleming, Michael Peroutka, Brad "Hunter Wallace" Griffin, Clyde N. Wilson, Isaac Baker,[1] Michael Tubbs,[2] Michael "Palmetto Patriot" Cushman[3] Thomas Woods[4][5]
SubsidiariesThe Free Magnolia (magazine)
Websiteleagueofthesouth.com

The League of the South (LS) is an American white nationalist, neo-Confederate, white supremacist organization[6][7][8][9][10] that says its goal is "a free and independent Southern republic".[11]

Headquartered in Killen, Alabama, the group defines the Southern United States as the states of the Confederacy: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, and Virginia.[12] It claims to also be a religious and social movement, advocating a return to a more traditionally conservative, Christian-oriented Southern culture.[13]

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.[14][15] The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated it as a hate group.[16]

  1. ^ "Meet the League 2018". June 29, 2018. Archived from the original on October 10, 2018. Retrieved August 22, 2018.
  2. ^ "Michael Ralph Tubbs". Southern Poverty Law Center/Hatewatch. Retrieved May 12, 2019.[dead link‍]
  3. ^ "'May I Be Of Service?' Michael Cushman's Letter to National Alliance Founder William Pierce". Southern Poverty Law Center. February 9, 2017. Retrieved May 12, 2019.
  4. ^ Applebome, Peter (March 7, 1998). "Could the Old South Be Resurrected?; Cherished Ideas of the Confederacy (Not Slavery) Find New Backers". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on June 25, 2018. Retrieved May 11, 2018.
  5. ^ "Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Op-ed / Last of the Confederates". archive.boston.com. Archived from the original on November 15, 2017. Retrieved May 11, 2018.
  6. ^ Pavia, Will (December 4, 2010). "They call us rednecks and crackers but we can govern ourselves". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved July 16, 2018.
  7. ^ Atkins, Steven E. (2011). Encyclopedia of Right-Wing Extremism In Modern American History. ABC-CLIO. p. 166. ISBN 978-1-59884-350-7. Archived from the original on April 24, 2017. Retrieved November 5, 2016.
  8. ^ Taylor, Helen (2002). "The South and Britain". In Jones, Suzanne W.; Monteith, Sharon (eds.). South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture. Louisiana State University Press. p. 341. ISBN 9780807128404.
  9. ^ "League of the South (LoS)". Anti-Defamation League. Archived from the original on July 17, 2018. Retrieved July 16, 2018.
  10. ^ Weill, Kelly (March 27, 2018). "Neo-Confederate League of the South Banned From Armed Protesting in Charlottesville". The Daily Beast. Archived from the original on March 28, 2018. Retrieved July 16, 2018.
  11. ^ "League of the South website". June 8, 2017. Archived from the original on December 22, 2017. Retrieved December 19, 2017.
  12. ^ "The US Civil War as a Theological War: Confederate Christian Nationalism and the League of the South" Archived October 30, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ "League of the South Core Beliefs Statement". League of the South. Archived from the original on June 15, 2008. Retrieved January 10, 2011.
  14. ^ "From Alt Right to Alt Lite: Naming the Hate". Anti-Defamation League. Archived from the original on October 24, 2017. Retrieved October 25, 2017.
  15. ^ "Meet the League: State Chairmen and Organizers of the League of the South". Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on October 25, 2017. Retrieved October 25, 2017.
  16. ^ "League of the South page at SPLC". Archived from the original on March 11, 2010. Retrieved March 11, 2010.