Reply #12: Yup ...

[RoyGBiv]

"For almost four years now, the SCV has been embroiled in an increasingly nasty civil war, as racial extremists battle moderates for control of what is certainly the largest Southern heritage organization in America. In the last year and a half, under the leadership of a new national chief whose politics have become clearer as his term of office unfolded, the ascendancy of the radicals has become undeniable."

This is precisely what I saw.

What bothers me (or one of the things that bothers me) is that this all started taking place years before anyone really knew of it. Some people, historians mostly, knew of it and commented upon it in various ways, but most people interested in such things thought it was ridiculous. People not interested in such things -- that would be most people -- didn't think of it at all. When a group with which I was affiliated, for example, suggested we might want to keep an eye on the members of the League of the South, which was at that time infiltrating the SCV, people called us paranoid or flatly stupid. "None of those people could ever get elected."

Well, I don't know if Joe Wilson is a League of the South member, nor do I know if he has ever been directly associated with them. I do, however, know he is an elected official. I know he is a member of a group that came to be dominated by those sympathetic to or actively pursuing League of the South goals. And, I know that he has acted in a way identical to the way the LoS would want him to act. Now, he's a nationally known figure with a sizable following.