Making a Stand for the Confederacy, 150 Years Later.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- One hundred and fifty years and one day later, the South did it again. Before a cheering crowd of several hundred men and women, some in period costume and others in crisp suits, an amateur actor playing Jefferson Davis was sworn in as president of the Confederacy on the steps of the Alabama Capitol on Saturday, an event framed by the firing of artillery, the delivery of defiant speeches and the singing of ''Dixie.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]