Nearly three years ago, the League of the South abandoned the Confederate Battle Flag (CBF) in favor of a blacked-out adaptation created by a former member.聽A recent blog post by League president Michael Hill titled 鈥淧ast, Present, and Future鈥 attempts to rationalize the group鈥檚 reversal of their stance on the CBF and to qualify their use of the new flag alongside the Confederacy鈥檚 vaunted icon as part of a larger, deliberate shift towards 鈥淪outhern Nationalism.鈥