Rebel yell: Southern nationalists again crying ‘secede’

Birmingham, Ala. • Some white Southerners are again advocating for what the Confederacy tried and failed to achieve in the 1860s: secession from the Union.So-called Southern nationalists are among the demonstrators who are fighting the removal of Confederate monuments around the South. They say it’s time for Southern states to secede again and become independent of the United States.It’s not clear exactly how that could happen. But the longtime president of the leading Southern