“Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.”
– Robert E. Lee
The Five A’s In ‘Raaaaacism’
"........events inspired a sense among many political theorists that the permanence of large nation-states was now, or at least should be, an open question. Perhaps smaller would be better, and decentralization of power — up to and including the division of large nations into smaller ones — was seen as a favorable trend by these theorists.
This, then, was the general inspiration of the League of the South and, much like the Lega Nord — which employed the symbolism of the medieval Lombard League as part of its appeal to the historic past of regional independence – the LoS quite naturally invoked the history of the Confederacy."
