This was also, you may recall, part of the ratcheting up that took place in the 1999 through 2002, effort.
It is terribly difficult for Conservatives, who--however we may differ among ourselves as to particular priorities--still recognize the need for some sort of moral compass; to really understand the hatred--not idealism or altruism--but pure hatred that drives the Egalitarian/Collectivist in the war on reality. But none of these antics will ever make any sense until one realizes that that is indeed the driving mechanism.
Someone pointed out something interesting about Dylann Roof’s lunatic “manifesto” that was found online after the shooting. In it he decried the fact that “there is no skinhead or KKK presense in Charleston.”
Imagine that. In the cradle of the confederacy this loon was not able to find kindred spirits for his basic garden variety racism. If that’s not progress then what is?