The League of the South is a Southern nationalist organization, headquartered in Killen, Alabama, whose ultimate goal is "a free and independent Southern republic."[1] The group defines the Southern United States as the states that made up the former Confederacy.[2] While political independence ranks highly among the group's goals, it is also a religious and social movement, advocating a return to a more traditional, conservative Protestant Christian-oriented Southern culture. The organization is labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.