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I think it is reasonable to point out that the CSA had a key ideological issue in common with the Nazis. That is the idea that there is a Master Race and slave races.

While the two systems were very different, it’s not difficult to imagine the CSA, had it won, developing in a direction similar to that the Nazis later followed. Once you really believe in a Master Race ideology, a lot follows logically.

I think the real pull to the Axis would have been Latin Fascism and Japanese bushido.

But at any rate, the point of my posts is the utter hypocrisy of painting the Confederacy as a great defender of "states' rights" when it was born out of numerous violations of the rights of free states by the Slave Power. To pick the Confederate battle flag (actually the Confederate naval jack) as a symbol of "resistance to federal tyranny" nicely dovetails with the Left's narrative that the primary "right" conservatives want is to own and enslave Black people.

And btw . . . the so-called "League of the South" supports the Communist Celtic "national liberation movements" in the name of "Celtic solidarity." This means they excuse and defend the socialism and radical abortionist/homosexualist doctrines of those movements. Last year they adamantly supported the Scottish National Party and Scottish "independence" despite the fact that the SNP intended to make "independent" Scotland the first country on earth that enshrined "gay rights" in its fundamental law. I detest Black Americans' alliance with the Left, but how in the world can conservatives remain silent at such duplicitous hypocrisy by "palaeos" and neo-Confederates?

One of the main issues driving the South towards secession was the various personal freedom laws of northern states that interfered with recovery of fled slaves. Sometimes those laws and constitutional provisions were reasonable, intended primarily to provide due process in determining whether the fugitive actually was a slave. Sometimes they were frankly in direct conflict with the federal Constitution, intended to prevent the return of fugitives regardless of their legal status.

But in 850 the South got the Fugitive Slave Law passed, which took the return out of state hands and gave it to the feds, a quite considerable expansion of federal power.

The South only became enamoured of states’ rights when it became obvious they were losing the disproportionate control of the federal government they’d held since the Founding.