They tend to be middle-aged white men who work professional jobs and live in the suburbs. They are voracious readers of history and avid users of the Internet. All in all, they have more in common with the John Birch Society than with the Ku Klux Klan. Many are Republicans who've grown too angry to remain passive loyalists of the Grand Old Party. Kennedy has seen a huge shift in the Southern attitude since he first began preaching separatism back in the late 1960s.
People are just angry.
They know they're getting it stuck to 'em. The times are right for what we are talking about. So is the technology. Previous Confederate revivals were led by literary movements, such as the 1920s poetry of The Fugitives. This one thrives on the Internet.