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Re: [OM] F--K This City

Subject: Re: [OM] F--K This City
From: Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:16:56 -0400
Yes, the KKK is still quite active in South Carolina!

http://www.pbase.com/image/73365545

The house down the highway from our farm has a Confederate flag flying on a
prominent flagpole and some there does target shooting most days.  Makes me
and our dog very nervous!!

Tina


On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Paul Braun <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 6/17/13 01:32 : , Chris Crawford wrote:
> > That too. The racist stuff doesn't surprise me, given that we were home
> to
> > the largest KKK in the country when I was in high school in the early
> 90s.
> > Back then, there was also a Nazi show on the local cable access channel.
> > The show wasn't made locally, but someone locally sponsored it to get it
> > on the Ft. Wayne cable access channel.
> >
> Wow.  That's a lot more current than here in Valpo.  Our Klan
> infestation was much earlier in the century. My alma mater, Valparaiso
> University, actually almost became a Klan college in 1923 before the
> Lutherans outbid them.  They had plans to expand it and use it as a way
> to instill "Americanism" in the youth of the day....
>
> There was a lot of Klan presence and pro-KKK sentimentality in Valpo the
> town in the first half of the century.  Even today it's predominantly
> white, although there are a few African-American and Hispanic families.
>
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>
> Paul Braun
> Certified Music Junkie
> Valparaiso, IN
>
>
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>
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