A decade after the 2011 uprisings, the South Yemeni revolution is one of the few positive exceptions in the otherwise gloomy civil society scene in the Arab World. Born years prior to the Spring out of disappointment towards Yemeni unity in areas that formed an independent state during 1967-1990, the uprising intensified during that year when all of Yemen revolted. As the war ensued and other Spring-2011 movements dwindled away, the Southern Cause widened its popularity. Alongside the Huthi Movement in the north, southerners united behind the cause have taken steps in governing territories seized from control of the impotent Hadi regime. In my paper, I will discuss the factors that contributed in making the Southern Cause a relative success story. I start from the fact that the southerners have gathered an unprecedentedly large political umbrella behind a single cause, unique in history of the area. Secondly, I study the social composition of different activities and argue that the youthful component certainly has contributed to its popularity as the young people first time since the 1960s became politicized. But alongside the youth, women’s re-entry in politics has made the revolution an all-family phenomenon that increases its inter-generational popularity. Despite constant violence, misery of war and foreign reservations, Southerners aim to continue their revolution towards re-establishment of a sovereign state. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Yemen since the late PDRY period, and most recently before the current war, I argue that the Southern Revolution has created new generational and gendered subjectivities and practices that have redefined the public sphere – and politics as a form of agency – to be open and inviting to all. While overtly public in Yemen, the Southern Revolution remains internationally silenced.