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Just as an anectdotal observation of 53 years.

I have personally known as in (known they were members) 3-4 real white supremacists who belonged in organizations.

1) Upstate New York.....Christian Identity

2) Pennsylvania....Klan....was at Greensboro...had worked as a project manager for my dad...dad fired him for his membership.

3) Jacksonville FL....hardcore Christian Identity...former serious military...he is southern no question

4) Hudson valley...NeoNazi...Hammerskin sort...very angry...stays informed, I’ll give him that

I did know a few Citizens Council folks in Jackson MS way back in the 60s but they were more like League of the South...not violent personally...and were more segregationist than anything else..not zealots but worried about the implications of black political power

I like how when you corner them with Yankee racism then they try to play the Democrat card.

OK count me on the record. I think the radical GOP of Reconstruction was every bit as destructive to civility as was any fire-eater and that 100 years later that it was a coalition of liberal and moderate GOP (not Magnus or Barry or WFB) aligned with Yankee Democrats that instituted all this social BS that now threatens to kill us and has crippled our ability to function as a culture. The liberal Dems of the 1960s did it for votes and the dumbassed GOP did it for guilt.

I will take a John C Stennis over a Lowell Weicker, Tom Dewey or Jacob Javitz any day of the week.

Politics is never so simple in retrospect except to simpletons.