Dixie Christ: Resurrecting the Confederacy.

2005: thousands of radical Islamists slip into Iraq, hoping to destabilize the emerging democracy and establish fundamentalist rule. Meanwhile, thousands of radical Christians slip into South Carolina, hoping to destabilize its tenuous pluralistic democracy, cecede from the United States, and establish fundamentalist rule. In spite of the obvious exact similarities, one should not jump to conclude that there are similarities. If you do, the Jesus freaks might come after you.

South Carolina may not be flowing with milk and honey, but it looks like the promised land to the leaders of this group, which hopes to relocate thousands of conservative Christian families like the Janoskis from across America to the Palmetto State.

Their aim: to tip the political scales, which they see as already weighted heavily to the right, further in that direction.

Secession "is a valid option," said Janoski, a "state coordinator" for the organization -- but he hopes it doesn't come to that.

"If it's going to be ugly and bloody, nobody wants that," he said.