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|type of villains = White Supremacist Hate Group}}{{Quote|The South will rise again!|Michael Hill}}The '''League of the South''' (LS) is a white nationalist, Neo-Confederate, [[White Supremacy|white supremacist]] organization, headquartered in Killen, Alabama, which states that its ultimate goal is "a free and independent Southern republic". The group defines the Southern United States as the states that made up the former Confederacy (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee and Virginia). It claims to be also a religious and social movement, advocating a return to a more traditionally conservative, Christian-oriented Southern culture. | |type of villains = White Supremacist Hate Group}} | ||
{{Quote|The South will rise again!|Michael Hill}} | |||
The '''League of the South''' (LS) is a white nationalist, Neo-Confederate, [[White Supremacy|white supremacist]] organization, headquartered in Killen, Alabama, which states that its ultimate goal is "a free and independent Southern republic". The group defines the Southern United States as the states that made up the former Confederacy (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee and Virginia). It claims to be also a religious and social movement, advocating a return to a more traditionally conservative, Christian-oriented Southern culture. | |||
The League of the South supports [[Anti-Semitism]], [[Islamophobia]], anti-[[communism]], and [[Homophobia]]. | The League of the South supports [[Anti-Semitism]], [[Islamophobia]], anti-[[communism]], and [[Homophobia]]. | ||
The movement and its members are allied with the [[ | The movement and its members are allied with the [[Alt-Right]]. The group was part of the neo-[[Nazi]] Nationalist Front formely alongside the [[National Socialist Movement]] (NSM), the now defunct [[Traditionalist Workers Party]] (TWP) and [[Vanguard America]] (VA) since rebranded as Patriot Front. The group participated in the Pikeville rally in Pikeville, Kentucky, the Charlottesville riots/[[Unite the Right rally]] in Charlottesville, Virginia and the White Lives Matter rally in Shelbyville, Tennessee as key organizers in all three events. The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated it as a [[Hate Groups|hate group]]. | ||
The group celebrates the [[Assassination of Abraham Lincoln]] and reveres [[John Wilkes Booth]] as a hero. They also praised the actions of [[Dylann Roof]] in the aftermath of his massacre at Charleston, South Carolina’s Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, in July 2015. | The group celebrates the [[Assassination of Abraham Lincoln]] and reveres [[John Wilkes Booth]] as a hero. They also praised the actions of [[Dylann Roof]] in the aftermath of his massacre at Charleston, South Carolina’s Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, in July 2015. |