On Saturday, January 27, 2018, members of the Florida chapter of the neo-Confederate League of the South (LOS) emerged from a Tallahassee parking deck and made their way toward the state鈥檚 capitol to host their first rally of the new year. They were met by a massive crowd of counter-protesters bearing signs and chanting slogans decrying the League鈥檚 desire for an all-white ethnostate in the Southeastern United States.
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee wasn鈥檛 known to have spent much, if any, time in New Orleans during the Civil War.
According to the League of the South鈥檚 website, Saturday鈥檚 鈥淩ally to Restore Florida Sovereignty鈥� was supposed to get the group 鈥渙ff and running in 2018.鈥澛�
础听League of the South聽member has been arrested in Florida and charged with beating a man after the 鈥淯nite the Right鈥� rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August.
This Saturday, January 27, the League of the South (LOS), a neo-confederate organization that seeks to establish a white, Christian ethnostate in the southeastern U.S., will hold its first rally of the new year on the steps of Florida鈥檚 capitol building in Tallahassee.聽
A series of scandals in the Nationalist Front 鈥斅燼nd a long-running and聽well-documented聽hypocritical streak on the part of leadership in the neo-Confederate League of the South (LOS) 鈥斅爃as revealed a willingness on the part of president Michael Hill to look the other way when both allies and his own troops fail to meet his supposed moral standards.
Memphis is known as the 鈥淏luff City.鈥� But, the biggest bluff may have come from a neo-Nazi from Arkansas and a group wanting to protest the removal of two Confederate statutes.
A Maryland Klansman has been released on bail while facing charges that he fired a gun at the 鈥淯nite the Right鈥� rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in August.
鈥婽he statue has come down and the Memphis park where Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest is buried has been sold to a private organization.
For a pair of Mississippi lawmakers, the holy wars of the past aren鈥檛 past. They鈥檙e still present.
