PC: White supremacist paramilitary group in the 50s/60s

The White League was incorporated into the State Militias and National Guard of Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, etc so it can be used as an example for your TL. However, I strongly advise talking it over with someone who lived in the South or/and has learned Southern history because it can be very misleading. However, you can claim that Louisiana (due to a long history of individualism) had state militias become cadres of PMCs with several being made up of white supremacists which would allow some entry of the PMCs into your TL.

Hope this helped @King_Arthur
 
It's a weird kind of deja vu when a thread gets necro'd. You're following along with the posts and the arguments until you finally get to the message that jogs your memory, and then you check the date, and realize that all the momentum in the thread is looooong dead. :closedtongue:

So disappointed, I'm gonna go find a soda-can to kick. /s
 
White supremacists in the South aren't going to blow up into a full paramilitary insurrection so long as they've got the local power on their side. Perhaps the Germans before and during the Second World War send more feelers into far-right groups and get enough of them on a program of 'dividing the world for the Aryan man', with the Nazis having Europe and themselves turning the Americas into a protestant white-dominated slave empire, with the Jews purged and the blacks and Latinos put in their 'place'. With a Republican president and Congress with at least a soft civil rights agenda and Germany being a bit less overtly antagonistic to the US, and supporting their guys in the South with money and weapons, you could have them exploding into partisan resistance against the American war effort. This could be enough to produce the political will to initiate a second Reconstruction that would lead to a continuing underground network of white supremacist paramilitaries.
 
White supremacists in the South aren't going to blow up into a full paramilitary insurrection so long as they've got the local power on their side. Perhaps the Germans before and during the Second World War send more feelers into far-right groups and get enough of them on a program of 'dividing the world for the Aryan man', with the Nazis having Europe and themselves turning the Americas into a protestant white-dominated slave empire, with the Jews purged and the blacks and Latinos put in their 'place'. With a Republican president and Congress with at least a soft civil rights agenda and Germany being a bit less overtly antagonistic to the US, and supporting their guys in the South with money and weapons, you could have them exploding into partisan resistance against the American war effort. This could be enough to produce the political will to initiate a second Reconstruction that would lead to a continuing underground network of white supremacist paramilitaries.

The POD is the 1948 Election so you aren't gonna get Nazis funding them.
 
The collapse of the State Militias may want to be your cause for the PMC groups as the US Government ordered their disbandment after WW2 with the South mostly doing so by 1947. Therefore it would be very recent to the 50s and 60s with your men, being at their oldest, having a 17 year gap at the absolute worst while maintaining cadres of former state militia groups. This effectively results in these still trained men grouping with people of similar ideology while training yet more men of the same ideology.

Just a continuation of my previous though
 
Alabama would want to take every measure possible to keep things from getting bad enough that Washington would feel justified in and face public pressure to get involved. If anything would get the country to gather the political will to actually crack down on Jim Crow, it's white supremacists running amuck with absolute disreguard for even the venere of rule of law. Showing absolutely no willingness to bend is liable to result in being broken by the imposition of marshal law and the end of white supremacy,while cracking down on the worst excesses allows the main body of the policy to survive.

This basically, Alabama can either be seen to be doing something, or the Federal government can shrug, and say "Fine, we'll do it ourselves" and a phone starts ringing over at the 82nd Airborne.
 
Maybe king is killed earlier and Malcom X survives leading to a far more by militant movement which lead to a stronger klan in return. The KKK would attack blacks in the south leading to X sending armed men to fight back against them. I could see it turning in to tic for tac like Northern Ireland. This is not even mentioning the soviets or China, Cuba who would love to “send aids to black freedom fighters” if it get really bad there could even be used of chemical weapons on both sides.
 
Maybe king is killed earlier and Malcom X survives leading to a far more by militant movement which lead to a stronger klan in return. The KKK would attack blacks in the south leading to X sending armed men to fight back against them. I could see it turning in to tic for tac like Northern Ireland. This is not even mentioning the soviets or China, Cuba who would love to “send aids to black freedom fighters” if it get really bad there could even be used of chemical weapons on both sides.

I think long before the Chemical weapons start coming out the Federal Government would be thoroughly sick of that. And if the local government isn't going to do anything to control the Klan, the US Army will be more then happy to.
 
It’s more likely to be Northern anti-black and nativist elements (or Southerners living in the North) than Southern ones, with Northern Ireland and the UK proper being the Northern states. Southern terrorism and coercion was already there in terms of the Bill Connor types.
 
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