Confederate Colony, Compound or What?
Check the Dixie Daily News [NOTE: Inactive link edited out 10/05/2004] or the South Carolina League of the South at [NOTE: Inactive link edited out 10/05/2004] for an advertisement for a "Confederate Colony” recently established near Abbeville, S.C.
The unique aspect of this security-gate, berm and fence enclosed community is its restricted property ownership requirement: League of the South (LOS), SCV or "similar conservative members only." According to Dixie Daily News editor Ron Holland, who is a and SCV member, the Confederate Colony is the brainchild of Jerry Creech and J. Pat Baughman. Creech is a former South Carolina leader of the Council of Conservative Citizens; Baughman is a LOS/SCV member and song and dance man who has recorded a CD for the . The "colony" will supposedly be a, "place to retire . . . and relax among kindred spirits."
Save the SCV Trans-Mississippi coordinator and core-group member Hugh Harkey observed from North Carolina that the plan, "Sounds like Creech and Baughman have been talking to Kirk Lyons and taking lessons from the White Aryan Nations who had a compound in Idaho where Lyons was married." The Idaho compound is now closed and the Aryan Nations is seeking to establish a new compound in Pennsylvania.
Several SSCV members believe that “Confederate Colony” is nothing more than League of the South neo-secessionists and Council of Conservative Citizens racists trying to involve SCV members in a hare-brained, Confederate-utopia, real-estate scheme. "Associating with political fringe-groups like the LOS and CCC, much less living in a compound with them, supports neither the SCV’s tradition of credible historical scholarship nor our mission of Confederate heritage guardianship," states Walt Hilderman, SSCV core-group member and S.C. regional coordinator.