The League of the South
The Blight On Dixie

	Michael Hill is the President of the League of the South. After the September 11, attacks on this country Hill is reported to have called them "the natural fruits of a regime committed to multiculturalism and diversity." According to Rick Ross, Hill claims that the League wants an "independent nation." Additionally, when Hill was asked where black people might fit into this Southern Nation, his response was. "Southern culture under attack today is the Anglo-Celtic culture of the South . . . People should be free to socialize or not socialize within or without various ethnic groups with no government intervention." Not only is Hill considered a racist, his organization appears to be heading toward advocating Reconstruction Christianity - how extreme is that?
	Grady McWhiney - the founder of the "McWhiney Research Foundation" and the author of Cracker Culture about which the following was written: "In his book Cracker Culture (1988), McWhiney introduced new interpretations of Southern history that continue to have a profound impact on how scholars and the general reading public view the uniqueness of Southern civilization and culture." It has long been considered the neo-Confederate Bible. McWhiney was a highly regarded member of the League's Board of Directors.
	Charlie Reese is a favorite at League events. He writes a column which is published in the Orlando Sentinel and at kingonline. Reese is another Reconstructionist who last year made the following comments in one of his articles: "The scriptural condemnation of homosexual behavior is explicit and unavoidable. The fact that the Rev. Gene Robinson paraded around the convention with his partner on his arm says about everything you would want to know about liberal Episcopalians." "Had the liberals been born in another time, they would have tripped over each other in a rush to kiss the rear end of the Roman emperor. No martyrs they."
	>Kirk Lyons - an extremist with a law degree. In the past, Lyons has been directly involved with people like Adreas Strassmier, Timothy McVeigh, and Dennis Mahon. Lyons has devoted his practice to representing those on the racist right. A one-time member of the National Alliance, Lyons developed what is now called the Southern Legal Resource Center. His intention is for the SLRC to be be the racist right's answer to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Lyons frequents events held by the Council of Conservative Citizens, the League of the South and recently ran (unsuccessfully) for the leadership of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. In the past, Lyons has attempted to deny ties or membership with the National Alliance, but finally gave it up when documents started to surface proving him a complete and utter liar.
	Thomas Fleming - President of the paleo-conservative "think tank" The Rockford Institute which has been highly supportive of Pat Buchannan in the past. The monthly magazine, edited by Fleming, "Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture," is written toward a more scholarly White Nationalist audience and features articles by both Sam Francis and Thomas Fleming. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Thomas Fleming has gone so far as to characterize the 19th Century Ku Klux Klan as a "national liberation army." Given his association with the likes of Pat Buchanan that comment isn't too surprising. Fleming is also a favorite among the League of the South.
	Thomas Cripps - ordained minister, Mississippi State Leader of the League of the South, this guy is a real trip. Cripps somehow comandeered the Confederate Presbyterian Church in Lumberton and started preaching a reconstruction type brand of Christianity. After an incident during a Spring Break party where some black students got out of hand with a couple of white girls, Cripps referred to them as "animals" and labeled the NAACP as "animals of the weasel kind."
	Steve Wilkins a founding director of the League of the South. And there's more. Wilkins has a church - the Auburn Avenue Presbyterian Church in Monroe, La.,- where he preaches a reconstruction brand of Christianity. Some quotes from Wilkins: "Slavery as it existed in the South ... was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence." "There has never been a multiracial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world." "Slave life was to them [slaves] a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food, clothes, and good medical care."
	Clyde Wilson - a founding member of the League of the South. From their website: Dr Clyde Wilson of Columbia, South Carolina, is professor of Southern history at The University of South Carolina at Columbia, editor of the John C. Calhoun papers and The Essential Calhoun, author of Carolina Cavalier, a contributing editor for Chronicles magazine, and a member of the Board of Directors of The League of the South. Just another academician who wants to rewrite history and further a "southern agenda."
	Michael Andrew Grissom - a favorite of the League of the South - author of "Southern By The Grace of God" and other books of similar title. The promo for the book mentioned states: "The first modern defense of the South, this book is credited with starting the Southern resistance movement. Widely acclaimed as the essential handbook for Southerners..."
	Connie Ward - Connie is the head of the Florida Panhandle Regional Chapter of the League of the South. We placed her in here largely because we ran afoul of her on some MSN message boards and she just loves us so much. Connie also runs a website where she sells bumper stickers under the following tag: "Do you love the Southland? Are you proud of your Confederate ancestors? Do you support independence for Dixie? Are you fed up with the attacks on your heritage and culture?" Personally, we don't care how they go, silent or screaming, just so they go.
	Dr. Neill Payne - this guy is Kirk Lyons partner and he is also his brother-in-law. Not only that - they were both married in a double wedding to the daughters of Betty and Charles Tate. Additionally, they were married on the Aryan Nations compound in 1990, by none other than the infamous Richard Butler. But it gets even better. Betty Tate had been an Aryan Nations secretary while Charles was an aide to Butler. It has been reported that the Tate's also had a son who is currently in prison for some sort of terrorist activity. And just to cap things off, the best man for Lyons was the violently racist former klansman, Louis Beam. Does anyone believe that these people are not racist? Does anyone believe that these people do not act out of hate?
	Wayne Carlson - Secretary/Treasurer of the Virginia Chapter of the League of the South. Carlson is an anti-Semite who rails against the "Jewish controlled media." Where have we heard that song before? A few years ago he wrote an article entitled "Media Monopoly=Thought Control," in which he reviews the National Allaince tract "Who Rules America?" After agreement with the tract, that "Jews" control the media, Carlson had this to say: Those of us with children know how impressionable and unsuspecting they are. If you find that the values and ideas being promoted through the media conflict with your own, I suggest that you take some positive steps to protect your children and seek your news and entertainment elsewhere. In the League of the South we call this 'abjuring the realm.' Who Rules America? You tell me." We, at Citizens Against Hate, call a vile, racist, anti-Semitic individual raising children to be just like him a travesty.
	Ron Holland - the Editor of Dixie Daily News and former leader of the Southern Party which is now defunct. A quote from Ron Holland: "[T]he conflict and political movement is not over until we are, again, a free people and a free nation taking our place among the nations of the earth."
	Robert Hayes is the South Carolina State Leader of the League of the South. He has been quite active and recently attended a rally held in front of the Southern Poverty Law Center in protest of Morris Dees as well as the Civil Rights Monument. In an interview with a reporter, Hayes called the SPLC a "hate institution."

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