WSFA 12 News Montgomery, AL |New 'Southern' Political Party Formed
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Montgomery, the city that served as the first Capitol of the Confederacy, is set to become the birthplace for an organization of Southerners who feel disenfranchised by today's political system.
The Southern National Congress has scheduled its first meeting March 4th and 5th in Montgomery and hopes to bring together as many as 1,000 people to create "a permanent forum for the expression of distinct Southern interests, Southern grievances, and Southern solutions."
The League of the South, a Southern independence group that is viewed as marginal and extremist by critics, is organizing the event. League President Michael Hill says "this is much broader than the League of the South."
Hill says his goal is to bring together people from a variety of groups to "speak out for the disenfranchised people of the South. We see a lot of Southerners--particularly middle-class Southerners--being without a voice."
The Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks extremist groups, classifies the League of the South as a "hate group."
Alabama Associated Press
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