Is the Southern Independence Party a “hate” group?
Of course not. In fact we openly oppose “hate and racist groups.” The Southern Independence Party needs people from all walks of life and seeks members primarily from the Southern States. Southerners are a people not a race. We are a people of common history and cultural heritage heralding from our common national origin first of the Confederation of States and Colonies in the late 1700s. And after a brief experiment of 72 years in a union with other States and persons of different cultural background than those of the Southern colonies, our ancestors finally ended their abortive experiment with the united States in 1861, and again formed their own nation called the Confederate States of America built upon a Constitution patterned after the one our forefathers had helped to formulate in 1789. And even though our armies were soon overwhelmed by the invading hoards from the North (who out numbered us four to one) and who took away the lives of our people, our freedoms, property, liberty