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To: smug
<...a sign in southern Illinois that read "KKK meeting tonight, everybody welcome"

Yes, and the state that holds the record for the largest Klan membership was Indiana, a state for which there was no star in the Confederate battleflag.

952 posted on 06/23/2006 7:51:58 AM PDT by Texas Mulerider
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To: Texas Mulerider
Yes, and the state that holds the record for the largest Klan membership was Indiana, a state for which there was no star in the Confederate battleflag.

Indiana even elected them

"When self-professed Klansman Edward Jackson was elected governor in 1924, forty per cent of all native-born Caucasian men in Indianapolis, along with most members of the City Council, the Board of School Commissioners, and the Board of County Commissioners claimed Klan affiliation."
1,015 posted on 06/24/2006 2:09:26 PM PDT by smug (Tanstaafl)
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