you can make the same argument for Hamas in Palestine and Herzbollah in Lebanon. Occupying territories which do not want to be occupied is imperialism.
Edit: sorry, I read “American South” as in South America rather than Southern USA. In the case of USA, yes an ideal leftwing government in my world would help fund a grassroots leftist resistance for BIPOC rather than forced re-education camps for poor working class white people
Occupying territories which do not want to be occupied is imperialism.
Is the U.S. occupying Mississippi and Alabama?
yeah the american government needs to fuck off and recognise indigenous sovereignty.