League of the South

The League of the South (LS) is an American pro white and neo-Confederate Southern organization, headquartered in Killen, Alabama, which states that its ultimate goal is a free and independent Southern republic.

The group recognizes the orginal Southern United States as the states of the Confederacy: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, and Virginia. 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 many proud pro white groups. they were teamed up with the Fascist Socialist group, Fascist Front formerly alongside the National Socialist Movement (NSM), the now-defunct Traditionalist Worker 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.

History

The organization was formed in 1994 by Michael Hill and others, including his 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

They changed the name to The League of the South to avoid confusion with the Southern League of Minor League Baseball. The early members were Southern professors, including its president Michael Hill, a British history professor and specialist in Celtic history at Stillman College, a historically black school in Tuscaloosa. Hill has ever since left his teaching position there.

In 2000, the group supported Pat Buchanan and the Reform Party.