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Old 10-03-2007, 08:08 AM   #6 (permalink)
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i dont get it.
did you actually look at the league of the south?
they are basically just another tiresome little neo-fascist group.

compare the wiki page for example
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_the_South
to the statement of ideals from the front national:
http://www.frontnational.com/index.php
particularly their lovely positions concerning sucession from the eu.

both organizations argue that the "real culture" they defend is white, christian and ulta-conservative. both use this definition to set off the Evil Empire against which they imagine themselves struggling. both set up a logic that is exclusive at the levels of religion and ethnicity, but because they do not actually make the conclusions explicit themselves, they both deny that these implications necessarily follow.


now i am sure that the motive behind the op came from some wistful sense of antebellum nostalgia in which one severs "charm and courtesy" and "all things southern" from its actual contexts historically---from the artistocratic pretenses of cavalier society, from the plantation system this deployed inside of, from the economic system it sat upon...so this nostalgia is about the actual history in the way that the society for creative anachronism is about the mideval period.

as a kind of mental parlor game, i dont care about this one way or another.

but then again, i am a yankee so i suppose i am incapable by definition of understanding this deep southern thing.

but what seems quaint and musty and kinda irrelevant as a parlor game, becomes genuinely problematic if you transpose it from some curious tic employed as a solidarity check at "mixed" parties into an actual politics--if these politics amount to an updated blood and soil thing geared around a hallucination of "authentic culture."

let's assume this really is a parlor game, that the league of the south is a marginal little groups and that the idea behind the op was about the succession-nostalgia and not really about the politics and get on with drinking morning coffee...
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