Everything so cordial and convivial:

In an unlikely marriage of desire to secede from the United States, two advocacy groups from opposite political traditions - New England and the South - are sitting down to talk.

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Separated by hundreds of miles and divergent political philosophies, the Middlebury Institute and the League of the South are hosting a two-day Secessionist Convention starting Wednesday in Chattanooga.

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If allowed to go their own way, New Englanders “probably would allow abortion and have gun control,” [president of the League of the South] Hill said, while Southerners “would probably crack down on illegal immigration harder than it is being now.”

No! We’re surprised at such a pronounced distaste for migrant labourers on the part of states which were previously so partisan to illegally indentured labour.

The League of the South says it is not racist, but proudly displays a Confederate Battle Flag on its banner.

Not that they are racists, oh no sirree Bob. They merely display the standard of those who fought to maintain and prolong the system which forcibly abducted millions of Africans from their homes, sold them as livestock into abject misery, and which system’s modern adherents are craven, vile scum who have the bare-faced audacity to suggest that the descendants of those same Africans should be fucking deported whence their ancestors were abducted!

Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, which monitors hate groups, said the League of the South “has been on our list close to a decade.”

“What is remarkable and really astounding about this situation is we see people and institutions who are supposedly on the progressive left rubbing shoulders with bona fide white supremacists,” Potok said.

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Harry Watson, director of the Center For the Study of the American South and a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said it was a surprise to see The Middlebury Institute conferring with the League of the South, “an organization that’s associated with a cause that many of us associate with the preservation of slavery.”

He said the unlikely partnering “represents the far left and far right of American politics coming together.”

Middlebury Institute and League of the South, your starter for ten, no conferring. Which ethnic-religious minority is in control of United States foreign policy?