Copycats? Communists with an agenda? Dumbasses of any race proving that the gene pool really is polluted?
Probably just about anything but Klan. I used to live in Durham for quite a while. I knew the town pretty well. I'm with Perdogg, there hasn't been an active Klan presence in Durham for well over thirty years. There are, however, plenty of groups in and around Durham who would profit from the perception that the Klan had popped up there again. All this media attention just plays right into that agenda.
The Klan is the perfect Southern bogeyman to scare the Yanks with and someone is using that to their best advantage. Nothing more, nothing less.
From my post #40 -
Though schools are now integrated, Chatham residents can vote regardless of literacy or race, and the school system employs a Director of Minority Affairs, racism remains an ambiguous and pervasive issue in the community; something which exists and has deep roots in history but is usually hidden beneath the surface and not often spoken of in public forums. Racism occasionally surfaces in more blatant forms, such as the "Pittsboro Community Pool", a privately owned pool that will not admit African Americans to its membership, and in isolated incidences. Last year David Duke formed a Ku Klux Klan rally in the county to protest the rapid influx of Latino residents. Around the same time, a Chatham Central high school yearbook picture depicting boys with nooses around their necks appeared and was not adequately dealt with by school administrators, leading to the forming of an advocacy group for minority students in county schools (Offen, 2000). When asked about the need for a proposed diversity training, one Pittsboro community member responded, "I think it's needed in any community that has the kind of history Pittsboro has."