Abbey replied to an ask about Andy's Confederate sympathies:
"kumquatwriter said: I’ve no idea if it is legit. I do know that he used the “second civil war” as a major point when he was flooding me with Others not long before I escaped. He claimed that most of the factories that produce things like tractors and cigarettes could easily be switched over to produce tanks and bullets.
I don’t even know if factories like that exist in The South.
A bunch of his neo-X-men-from-1944 were direct decedents of major Confederate historical figures. There was a Lee, a Pickett, a Stuart and a Hill off the top of my head, and lots of others. He was super into the storyline."
Andy & the Confederacy
"kumquatwriter said:
I’ve no idea if it is legit. I do know that he used the “second civil war” as a major point when he was flooding me with Others not long before I escaped. He claimed that most of the factories that produce things like tractors and cigarettes could easily be switched over to produce tanks and bullets.
I don’t even know if factories like that exist in The South.
A bunch of his neo-X-men-from-1944 were direct decedents of major Confederate historical figures. There was a Lee, a Pickett, a Stuart and a Hill off the top of my head, and lots of others. He was super into the storyline."
http://kumquatwriter.tumblr.com/post/115903177723/wait-does-andy-actually-have-strong-confederate#tumblr_notes