At what point do you admit that the white community is fairly riddled with nutballs?
Unless you lived in Louisiana during those campaigns, you haven't the slightest idea what you are talking about.
Duke did everything he could put his KKK and nazi past behind him, insisted that he had changed, spouted exactly ZERO racism during the campaigns, stated over and over that he was inclusive and loved black people bla bla bla, and ran against the most corrupt governor in the history of the universe.
He ran as a conservative Republican. I never trusted the snake, but nowhere in any of his campaign literature, speeches, public appearances or commercials was there even one shred of racism. None.
To accuse those who voted for him of being "nutballs" is to not understand anything of the situation.
Maybe should pay a visit: http://www.adl.org/special_reports/duke_own_words/on_jews.asp
I lived in Louisiana at that time. If David Duke did not have the stigma of the KKK & the Nazi thing - many of FR would have voted for him. If I remember right - his strongest campaign point was against big government. If that's all you knew about him - you would have said 'yeah-that's the man'. He all but destroyed the fledgling GOP that had made progress in this democrat state. Louisiana really had such a lousy choice that year for people like myself - a former KKK'r versus (as someone else said) the most corrupt politician in the universe and proud of it. One of only two times in my life that I did not vote. It was disgusting.