some now associate solely with hateful racism and white supremacy. But reenactors associate them with a lot more, or they'd be off doing slave-beating or lynching reenactments with those who like that kind of thing. A lot of them have ancestors who lived and fought in that era and/or live near battlefields and roads armies too. (Lots of all of that down here.) Some travel the country and the world for this hobby, coming from other continents for wars fought on our soil, and vice versa.
Reenactors tend to become experts on the histories of particlar battles, military strategies, weaponry, methods of fighting, clothes, food, struggles, etc. Some attend classes to learn this stuff. And they're fun. Accountants get sight and fire artillery, and even be a general here and there. It gives men opportunities to ride their horses in cavalry charges, and how often would those come along?
As for the "furriner" problem of a couple of our GA neighbors, you mistake. I'm assuming you are not among our very insular GA neighbors. They're caught up in the current cultural stresses of the environment in which they were raised, and they tend to REACT to people from other countries not as people but as threatening invaders and proof of decades of losing their own battles against change -- until that passes and their better natures get a chance to kick in.
The last time my husband had to soothe a fishing buddy was at a dental office. He'd taken him because he'd need a drive home, and the guy's reaction to a gentleman from India was to pivot and run into my husband. Reaction was to an offfense against the way things should be instead of seeing a man about his age also waiting for fun time. Unfortunately, they didn't get time to chat.
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