What does that even mean? We went to Beauvoir, Jefferson Davis' retirement home and presidential library, and when I posted about it on FB one of my friends said "The South shall rise again!" I didn't question him because I know he meant it as a tossaway comment - he is not southern in any way, unless you count southern PG County.
But you hear that - the south will rise again, the south's gonna do it again...do what?
Rise. The South shall RISE again.
What you meant to ask, I think, is what 'rising' means.
Short version is what is thought of as the antebellum (Latin for 'before the war') period. They way things were before the Civil War. Plantation economy, slow and easy pace of life, genteelism, mannerly, respectful, intense self identification with ones state, reverence for the old folks who gallantly took their independence and built the land. What had to be fit in there as well is slavery and white, Christian supremacy which comes directly from the bible. It was the backbone of the order of Southern society. What also has to be fit in there is the fierce pride of that world that was also based on a massive insecurity that it was wrong yet could NOT be spoken of that amounted to a preference to lose it all and die rather than change.
Most folks who say 'the South will rise again!' are only thinking of the good parts, conveniently leaving out the rest. The sincere ones at least do themselves the honor of meaning the whole nine yards.
Trump appealed directly to the innate attraction many people have to, in some degree or other, fondly recall 'the good old days' while simultaneously forgetting the bad parts. It's a nostalgic sentiment that is understandable in that folks whom it appeals to are recalling when the world made sense to them. Right now, 'progressives' are angrily acting this out, longing for the 'good old days' and thinking the D's will rise again, in their turn conveniently forgetting all the bad parts of the past. Proving, once again, how much more we are all alike than different.