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You may be right, but I don't understand how moving Californians and other yankees into South Carolina is going to further his efforts of recreating the Confederacy.

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I can't claim to know which motive is Burnell's real one. Northerners or Westerners who'd move to South Carolina for his project may be more amenable to neo-confederate ideas than a lot of actual Southerners would be.

On the other hand, Burnell may not be very "Southern" in a cultural sense. It's common that political projects tend to be more about power and influence than about cultural traditions -- or religion, for that matter.