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		<title>Despite Boss’ Support, Rand Paul’s Aide Quits Amid Criticism</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/07/22/despite-boss-support-rand-pauls-aide-quits-amid-criticism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/07/22/despite-boss-support-rand-pauls-aide-quits-amid-criticism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2013 18:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White Nationalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Miss Scarlett, the “Southern Avenger” has surrendered. On Sunday, Jack Hunter, a close aide to U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, announced he had resigned from the Kentucky Republican’s Washington staff after a storm of controversy erupted July 9 surrounding Hunter’s past neo-Confederate statements and views, such as toasting the birthday every year of President Lincoln’s assassin, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rand Paul Aide’s Claims Regarding League of the South are Hogwash</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/07/12/rand-paul-aides-claims-regarding-league-of-the-south-are-hogwash/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/07/12/rand-paul-aides-claims-regarding-league-of-the-south-are-hogwash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2013 17:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Potok</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In all the brouhaha surrounding Jack Hunter, the aide to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) exposed as a longtime neo-Confederate activist this week, Hunter’s past as the leader of the Charleston, S.C., chapter of the League of the South (LOS) hardly registered. After all, Hunter said when confronted by the Washington Free Beacon, when he was [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>League of the South: No Longer Possible to Work With GOP</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/07/12/league-of-the-south-no-longer-possible-to-work-with-gop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/07/12/league-of-the-south-no-longer-possible-to-work-with-gop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2013 17:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Lenz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Hill. Profile avail at SPLC Intel. Files Michael Hill, the increasingly militant head of the neo-Confederate League of the South, has reached a conclusion following the revelation this week that Jack Hunter, an aide to U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has long harbored neo-Confederate beliefs: It may no longer be possible for the radical [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
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		<title>Aide to Sen. Rand Paul Exposed for Neo-Confederate Views</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/07/09/aide-to-sen-rand-paul-exposed-for-neo-confederate-views/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/07/09/aide-to-sen-rand-paul-exposed-for-neo-confederate-views/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 22:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=11198</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The “Southern Avenger” may sound like a comic book character, but he is no superhero fighting for truth, justice and the American way. In fact, the man who calls himself the Southern Avenger is Jack Hunter, a close aide to U.S. Sen. Rand Paul and for years a pro-secessionist, mask-wearing radio pundit and neo-Confederate activist, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>46</slash:comments>
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		<title>SC Governor Names White Nationalist to Reelection Committee</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/05/22/sc-governor-names-white-nationalist-to-reelection-committee/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/05/22/sc-governor-names-white-nationalist-to-reelection-committee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 19:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hatewatch Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Immigrant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White Nationalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is the daughter of Indian immigrants and just the third person of color to be elected governor of a Southern state. So, one might think she would want nothing to do with racists and anti-immigrant extremists. Not so, apparently. In anticipation of her 2014 re-election campaign, the Tea Party darling [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>64</slash:comments>
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		<title>Racist Former SCV Leader Gets 19 Years in $57 Million Ponzi Scheme</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/11/14/racist-former-scv-leader-gets-19-years-in-58-million-ponzi-scheme/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/11/14/racist-former-scv-leader-gets-19-years-in-58-million-ponzi-scheme/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Morlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Extremist Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=9968</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A man who was once seen as a genteel Southerner defending the “honor” of the Confederacy but who secretly lived lavishly on other people’s money now faces the next 19 years in a federal prison cell — possibly in solitary confinement. The first jolt for 65-year-old Ron Wilson — former national leader of the southern [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/11/14/racist-former-scv-leader-gets-19-years-in-58-million-ponzi-scheme/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Former SCV Leader Facing Prison for Massive Ponzi Scheme</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/09/05/former-scv-leader-facing-prison-for-massive-ponzi-scheme/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/09/05/former-scv-leader-facing-prison-for-massive-ponzi-scheme/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hatewatch Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Extremist Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A South Carolina extremist who helped engineer an attempt to turn the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) into an actively neo-Confederate organization is now facing prison for his role in a Ponzi scheme that defrauded hundreds of people. Ron G. Wilson remains free on bond after pleading guilty on July 30 to two counts of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>League of the South Chief: Whites are Naturally ‘Superior’</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/06/14/league-of-the-south-chief-whites-are-naturally-superior/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/06/14/league-of-the-south-chief-whites-are-naturally-superior/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Potok</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Extremist Propaganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=9288</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Hill, we hardly knew ye. Sure, we remember how, as early as 2000, you already were denigrating your black former students at Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Ala., to your friends, mocking their “humorous” names and offering up sensitive jokes like this one: “A quote from a recent affirmative action hire: ‘Yesta-day I could not [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/06/14/league-of-the-south-chief-whites-are-naturally-superior/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>154</slash:comments>
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		<title>Anti-Gay Activists Adopt a Dubious Model — the Confederacy</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/05/14/anti-gay-activists-adopt-a-dubious-model-the-confederacy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/05/14/anti-gay-activists-adopt-a-dubious-model-the-confederacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah Nelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-LGBT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=9168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Conservatives tend to object when the gay rights movement is compared to the civil rights movement, often claiming that LGBT activists are trying to “hijack” a unique moment in American history. It had been our impression here at Hatewatch that this objection was underpinned by an antipathy toward being compared to racist reactionaries who protested [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Slavery Apologist to Lecture Indiana University Students on Sex</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/04/11/slavery-apologist-to-lecture-indiana-students-on-sex/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/04/11/slavery-apologist-to-lecture-indiana-students-on-sex/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Potok</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christian Reconstruction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Extremist Propaganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=9012</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This Friday, a far-right religious activist who co-authored a repulsive apologia for Southern slavery and argues that women were created to be “dependent and responsive” to men, will speak on sexuality and the Bible at Indiana University, Bloomington. Invited by a campus Christian group, Douglas Wilson’s impending visit to this major university has set off [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/04/11/slavery-apologist-to-lecture-indiana-students-on-sex/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
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		<title>Extremist Former SCV Commander’s Business Raided in Alleged Fraud</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/03/16/extremist-former-scv-commanders-business-raided/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/03/16/extremist-former-scv-commanders-business-raided/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heidi Beirich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Extremist Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=8879</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday evening, Secret Service agents raided former Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) Commander Ron Wilson’s business. They seized silver, files and computers from Atlantic Bullion &#38; Coin, according to the Anderson, S.C., Independent Mail. The agents also seized items from his daughter Alison Shaum’s business, which is located next door. Wilson is accused by the [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/03/16/extremist-former-scv-commanders-business-raided/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Extremist Who Once Led SCV Accused of Violating Securities Laws</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/03/15/extremist-who-once-led-scv-accused-of-violating-securities-laws/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/03/15/extremist-who-once-led-scv-accused-of-violating-securities-laws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heidi Beirich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Extremist Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=8856</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ron G. Wilson, a former national commander of the Southern heritage group Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) who appointed several extremists to the group’s governing boards and oversaw a purge of anti-racist members, has been accused by the South Carolina attorney general of defrauding investors in his company. A complaint made public Monday says Wilson [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/03/15/extremist-who-once-led-scv-accused-of-violating-securities-laws/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Alaska Birther Launches ‘Sovereign’ Attack on ‘Mulatto’ Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/02/24/alaska-birther-launches-sovereign-attack-on-mulatto-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/02/24/alaska-birther-launches-sovereign-attack-on-mulatto-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah Nelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birther Extremism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sovereign Citizens]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An Alaska man who is challenging President Barack Obama’s eligibility for office on the grounds that the president is a “mulatto” based his complaint on an argument common to the neo-Confederate and antigovernment “sovereign citizen” movements, Hatewatch has learned. In a complaint filed Tuesday with the Alaska Division of Elections, Gordon Warren Epperly of Juneau [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/02/24/alaska-birther-launches-sovereign-attack-on-mulatto-obama/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>66</slash:comments>
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		<title>Georgia Judge Orders Obama to Appear at ‘Birther’ Hearing</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/01/24/georgia-judge-orders-obama-to-appear-at-birther-hearing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/01/24/georgia-judge-orders-obama-to-appear-at-birther-hearing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah Nelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birther Extremism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=8558</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Georgia administrative law judge has left in place a subpoena directing President Obama to appear at a hearing on Thursday regarding a “birther” complaint challenging the president’s eligibility for office. Deputy Chief Judge Michael Malihi issued his decision Friday, writing that the president’s legal team “failed to enlighten the court with any legal authority” [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/01/24/georgia-judge-orders-obama-to-appear-at-birther-hearing/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>38</slash:comments>
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		<title>Georgia Court to Hear Arguments on Obama’s Eligibility for Primary Ballot</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/01/18/georgia-court-to-hear-arguments-on-obamas-eligibility-for-primary-ballot/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/01/18/georgia-court-to-hear-arguments-on-obamas-eligibility-for-primary-ballot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Lenz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birther Extremism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=8527</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The birther movement, which has bedeviled President Obama since well before his inauguration with questions about his citizenship, is celebrating something of a watershed moment as it prepares to have a day in court. Earlier this month, Deputy Chief Judge Michael Malihi in Georgia’s Office of State Administrative Hearings denied a motion from the Obama [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/01/18/georgia-court-to-hear-arguments-on-obamas-eligibility-for-primary-ballot/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>54</slash:comments>
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		<title>Arrested Georgia Militiaman Also Neo-Confederate Activist</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/11/02/arrested-georgia-militiaman-also-neo-confederate-activist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/11/02/arrested-georgia-militiaman-also-neo-confederate-activist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heidi Beirich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Emory Dan Roberts, 67, who was one of four militia members arrested yesterday in a wide-ranging terrorism plot, was also a neo-Confederate activist who has rubbed elbows with hate group leaders. In 2003, Roberts helped organize a protest in Toccoa, Ga., against attempts to change the Georgia state flag, which at that time featured the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Neo-Confederates Offer Creative Take on ‘War Between the States’</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/10/04/neo-confederates-offer-creative-take-on-war-between-the-states/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/10/04/neo-confederates-offer-creative-take-on-war-between-the-states/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah Nelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In February 1961, more than 50,000 people – including three state governors – showed up in Montgomery, Ala., to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Jefferson Davis’ inauguration as the first (and only) president of the Confederate States of America. It was one of many massive events that would mark the controversial, racially charged centennial of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>55</slash:comments>
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		<title>Louisiana High Court Says Confederate Flag ‘Offensive’</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/09/14/louisiana-high-court-says-confederate-flag-offensive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/09/14/louisiana-high-court-says-confederate-flag-offensive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah Nelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In spring 2009, a Caddo Parish, La., prosecutor struck Carl Staples from the pool of potential jurors in the capital murder trial of Felton Dejuan Dorsey. Staples was not removed from the jury pool because he opposed the death penalty. Rather, the prosecutor dismissed Staples after he expressed reservations about serving as a juror in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>53</slash:comments>
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		<title>Radical Campus Organization Linked to Southern Hate Group</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/17/radical-campus-organization-linked-to-southern-hate-group/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/17/radical-campus-organization-linked-to-southern-hate-group/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White Nationalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Youth for Western Civilization (YWC), an ultraconservative student group, has long cultivated relationships with white nationalist organizations like American Renaissance, the National Policy Institute and the H.L. Mencken Club. Last spring, it even allowed American Renaissance leader Jared Taylor — who has written that black people are incapable of sustaining any kind of civilization without [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>League of the South: ‘What Would it Take to Get You to Fight?’</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/04/league-of-the-south-what-would-it-take-to-get-you-to-fight/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/04/league-of-the-south-what-would-it-take-to-get-you-to-fight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Extremist Propaganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ABBEVILLE, S.C. – Since its bookish beginnings as a group dominated by academics in 1994, the League of the South (LOS) has been obsessively driven to glorify Southern history and culture, pining for the independence denied the region by federal troops 150 years ago. Over the years, the neo-Confederate group’s platform grew to be distinctly [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>News Roundup for June 28, 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/06/28/news-roundup-for-june-28-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/06/28/news-roundup-for-june-28-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hatewatch Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racist Skinheads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racist Street Gangs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sovereign Citizens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White Supremacist]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[White supremacist Mark Stroman will be executed in Texas next month after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review his case.  Stroman was convicted for killing two people and shooting another in a post-9/11 revenge spree targeting people of Middle Eastern descent. A “general” in the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas has been sentenced to life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neo-Confederates March up Dexter Avenue for Second Inauguration</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/02/19/confederates-march-up-dexter-avenue-for-second-inauguration/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/02/19/confederates-march-up-dexter-avenue-for-second-inauguration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 21:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Lenz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=5819</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s hard to say exactly what the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) remembered so fondly on Saturday during a sesquicentennial celebration of Confederate President Jefferson Davis’ inauguration: a way of life that has been dead for a century and a half, or the day when the public at large appreciated their cause. With booming cannons [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>34</slash:comments>
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		<title>Defending the Antebellum South, Neo-Confederates To March on Montgomery, Ala., Saturday</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/02/16/defending-the-confederacy-neo-confederates-to-march-on-montgomery-saturday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/02/16/defending-the-confederacy-neo-confederates-to-march-on-montgomery-saturday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heidi Beirich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This coming Saturday, the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) is holding a major event to honor the sesquicentennial, or 150th anniversary, of the beginning of the Civil War. The festivities will “commemorate” events that most Americans see as a terribly dark period in American history: “the founding of the Confederate States of America, the inauguration [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Once Again, Racism Rears Up in the Sons of Confederate Veterans</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/02/11/once-again-racism-rears-up-in-the-sons-of-confederate-veterans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/02/11/once-again-racism-rears-up-in-the-sons-of-confederate-veterans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Potok</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=5767</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For much of the last decade, the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) has been roiled by an internal civil war between racial extremists and those who want to keep the Southern heritage group a kind of history and genealogy club. It’s beginning to look like the racists won. First came the news, originally reported on [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ron Paul Invites Neo-Confederate Witness to Testify in Congress</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/02/09/ron-paul-invites-witness-with-neo-confederate-ties-to-testify-in-congress/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/02/09/ron-paul-invites-witness-with-neo-confederate-ties-to-testify-in-congress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heidi Beirich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=5739</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) hosted his first hearing as chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees the Federal Reserve, the nation&#8217;s central bank. Paul wants to look at the institution&#8217;s impact on job creation and the unemployment rate. Paul, a vicious opponent of the Fed, in the past has called for its [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>61</slash:comments>
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		<title>Alabama Justice Compares &#8216;Liberal&#8217; Judges to Al-Qaeda</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/11/04/alabama-supreme-court-justice-compares-liberal-judges-to-al-qaeda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/11/04/alabama-supreme-court-justice-compares-liberal-judges-to-al-qaeda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Steinback</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=5035</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Like mentor, like protégé. Newly reelected Alabama Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker raised a few eyebrows even in this conservative state with his release last week of a radio campaign advertisement in which he said “liberal activist judges” like U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips should be listed with Al-Qaeda among America’s biggest security threats. Why? [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>League of the South Slammed by Former Board Member</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/10/04/league-of-the-south-slammed-by-former-board-member/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/10/04/league-of-the-south-slammed-by-former-board-member/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heidi Beirich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=4906</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ray McBerry, the longtime head of the Georgia chapter of the racist and secessionist League of the South (LOS), turned in his resignation this past Friday after being asked to quit the group’s board. In a long letter where he described loyally serving the league for 15 years, McBerry, sounding hurt, wrote that he had [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Jack Kershaw, Stalwart of White Nationalism, Dies</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/09/24/jack-kershaw-stalwart-of-white-nationalism-dies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/09/24/jack-kershaw-stalwart-of-white-nationalism-dies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 22:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Steinback</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=4888</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jack Kershaw, one of the most iconic American white segregationists of the 20th century and the lawyer who represented James Earl Ray following his conviction for the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has died in Nashville at the age of 96. He died on Sept. 7, but his death was not made public [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>51</slash:comments>
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		<title>SCV Plans to ‘Celebrate’ Racist Confederate Government</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/08/31/scv-plans-to-celebrate-racist-confederate-government/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/08/31/scv-plans-to-celebrate-racist-confederate-government/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Potok</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=4704</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The American Civil War was the costliest, most devastating conflict in the history of our country. At least 620,000 soldiers died, as did some 400,000 civilians who fell to disease, suicide, murder and similar causes. Hundreds of thousands of others suffered horrible wood-saw amputations and terrible wounds. In the four years the war lasted, it [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>43</slash:comments>
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		<title>Southern Heritage Group Offers Kids Unusual History Lessons</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/08/southern-heritage-group-offer-kids-unusual-history-lessons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/08/southern-heritage-group-offer-kids-unusual-history-lessons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heidi Beirich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neo-Confederate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Each summer, a few lucky young folks, whose parents presumably have neo-Confederate sympathies, spend a week at a Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) Sam Davis Youth Camp. The camps are inspired by the words of a Confederate officer warning that a Southern loss in the Civil War meant its history would be “written by the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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