In all of my 69 years here on Earth as a white person living in a rural area where most most of the population owns guns, I have never met a “white supremacist.”
Nor have I at 70 years living here in Los Angeles!
Well Strom Thurmond died in ‘03 so there’s one less.
As someone who spends a lot of time traveling abroad, I can say that the U.S. is probably the most hyper-sensitive country when it comes to any sort of perceived racism or discrimination. In the U.S. people are fixated about never saying anything the could be perceived as somehow racist.
One of my Korean friends said he prefers living in Korea over the U.S. because in Korea he doesn’t have to worry about everything he says.
I did meet a white supremacist once, but he was from South Africa.
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In the mid 70’s I was working in a shop in Arlington, VA. I met a girl who worked in a nearby florist shop. She told me the florist had once filled an order to paint roses black for the funeral of George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Neo Nazi Party. I came to realize the headquarters of the party was only a couple of blocks away.
Curious beyond measure, I went to the door, opened it, and stepped inside. It looked like a tourist information center except that the walls were decked with swastika flags and the literature racks were splashed with torrid, race based headers.
Perched on a stool sat a scrawny white boy dressed in a classic brown shirt uniform which was at least four sizes too large for him. He looked startled that someone had actually come through the door. I told him not to bother himself, I just wanted to look around. I gave myself a quick tour, flipped through the flyers a bit, and headed back out into the real world.
I came away with a sense of pathos. There was no menace. That kid was no more dangerous than the guy dressed as Goofy at Disneyland. He was however, far less intelligent. Just a few years later, they closed up and moved elsewhere or disbanded.
What the Fake News will *never* report is that many Southern communities were long ago disgusted with and shamed by the evil perpetrated by the democrat owned and operated KKK. In response, some have bent over backwards to be supportive of civil rights and welcoming toward people of color.
There is also the innate, legendary Southern politeness. Having relocated to East Tennessee from SoCal four years ago, I can confirm that this is a thing. I love it.
At the risk of sounding PC (I’ll roll the dice to prove a point), contrary to the left’s insanity about the South being full of racist, bigoted, homophobes; my experience has been quite the contrary. There is plenty of diversity, and, as far as I can tell, raaaaayyyyyyycccccciiiisssssmmmmmm is a non starter.
Same here, except I've been here for 70++ years.
I have never knowingly even been in the same room with a 'white supremacist'.
How many can there be in a country of 320+ million people if no one has ever met one?