Some see success, others see secession

A semantic struggle over the words succeed and secede is in play in the state capital over what some might call a silly, if not superfluous, flap.

The brouhaha started in February. That's when The League of the South, a Killen, Ala.-based organization that encourages southern states to secede from the United States, took out a billboard on that position in Tallahassee. The billboard, with simply the word secede in giant bold capital letters, is on Apalachee Parkway, a few blocks from the state Capitol.

The League of the South, in a post on its website, states its reasons for the dramatic call to action: “If the South is going to survive, especially against a floodtide of massive third world immigration and leftist attempts to destroy her very cultural and political foundations, she is going to have to seek her independence and govern herself.” The League of the South, incidentally, is considered a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, according to a Sunshine State News report.