Ten years after its founding, the League of the South has published a manifesto, The Grey Book, to express its political philosophy and objectives.
TO DISSOLVE THIS UNION
History professors spend a great deal of time explaining to their eager, young, students about the rise of “great” civilizations from Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great to Stalinism under Franklin Roosevelt’s favorite dictator, “Uncle” Joe. And also how these “empires” came a cropper, usually, a generation or two following the death of “fearless” leader. That’s human history in a nutshell. Empires rise, then they ignominiously fall apartToday the United States and China represent the last of the “Mega-states,” with our friends, the French and Germans, trying their best to patchwork together a competing “European Union.” However, there are significantly more numerous examples of secessionist or decentralizing movements worldwide: Scotland’s National Party, Wales’ Plaid Cymru, Cornwall’s Mebyon Kernow, Belgium’s Vlaams Blok, Italy’s Lega Nord, Mexico’s EZLIN, and the Basque’s MLNV. Here in the United States we have our own secessionist movements: the Alaskan Independence Party, the Cascadian National Party and the Cascadia Confederacy in the Pacific Northwest, the New England Confederation Movement, and La Voz de Aztlan in the Southwest. But the most significant American decentralizing effort lies, as one might suspect, in Dixie. The League of the South was established at Tuscaloosa, Alabama in June of 1994, with the avowed hope of founding a new nation, the Confederation of Southern States (CSS). This year the League published its manifesto, The Grey Book, “…a work in progress,” in order to express both their political philosophy and objectives.
What makes the League a threat to the Washington apparatchiks is that it eschews the tenets of socialism, including its obligatory sacraments: multiculturalism, diversity, and political correctness. The League of the South is traditionalist, reactionary, and republican.
