A Struggle Within The Confederate Legacy Movement
By JACOB KAUFFMAN • 9 HOURS AGO
... “We see a mixing of people who are essentially well-meaning, who really do think of the confederate flag as representing what was attractive about the antebellum South. But there are a substantial minority of people who are mixing into these rallies and the movement as a whole who really are very extreme,” he said ...
“Neo-secessionists have been working over the course of the last 15 years to take over certain kind of institutions to essentially magnify their powers. The most important of those struggles has been with the Sons of Confederate Veterans and that’s really never been resolved” ...
Civil War re-enactor John Bryan ... sports League of the South imagery on social media but said he rejects its ideas of white European heritage defining nationhood. However, he does tell KUAR he is a secessionist. Bryan’s also planning to run for Justice of the Peace as a Republican in nearby Faulkner County ...
... historian Bruce Levine at the University of Illinois .. said ... “The myth of the happy slave morphs into the claim of the loyal even if enslaved black member of the confederate armed services. The claim throughout is that this war is not about slavery as witnessed by the fact Southern blacks were as dedicated as Southern white” ...
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