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Sunday, January 28, 2001

The South will rise again, perhaps ignited by the stars and bars

ÒThese guys are very much building the intellectual capital which they hope to make the foundation for a reborn Confederacy. You have 9000- and 15,000-person membership rolls, huge groups littered with PhDs, doctors, and lawyers, which are vastly more politically dangerous than any Klan or neo-Nazi group could ever be.Ó"

Christian Science Monitor. Other uniting factors are state's rights and resistance to the Federal government, nostalgia for lost heritage, and yes, plain old bigotry. "The war occurred, and there's no point in pretending it didn't. Besides, removing all signs of the Civil War is a little akin to the Soviets airbrushing assassinated leaders out of photographs."'

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