About 12 years ago, I used to work with a bloke whose hobby was being a member of the Sealed Knot reenactment society. He used to dress up as a roundhead and go off to old Civil War battlefields to replay the Battle of Marston Moor etc.
Anyway, a group of them branched out into reenacting the US Civil War. And off a load of them went to Gettysburg, at the invitation of the Confederate Re-enacters Society; or some such group, which they assumed were nerdish history buffs like themselves. Only they weren't - these guys, on the Confederate side, were still fighting the Civil War. They really wanted to send the Yankees home in body bags, re-introduce segregation and probably slavery, and turn the clock back 150 years.
The point being, these guys aren't a new phenomenon; they are just one among many congregations of utter nutjobs who have always been around, and who rallied under Trump's banner.
Goes right the way back Nathan Bedford Forrest, the formation of the Klan and Jim Crow laws. Even Woodrow Wilson supported them. It's a throbbing vein that has run through American history for 150 years - the South just can't admit they lost the war, and those not even from the South that gravitate towards their ideals and beliefs (Idaho, ffs, and North Dakota?).


