Klansville USA was an interesting video that informs you about much that the listener may not have known. While most people would have believed that the stronghold in the USA must have been Mississippi or Alabama, it was actually North Carolina. They say that North Carolina had more Klan members than the rest of the South combined.
What surprised me most about the Klan in North Carolina was that they were open to the public and would hold these gatherings for everyone to see. They would hold these gatherings in the public to show the world that they are not an organization that operates in the dark, but they are open to the public and want to be seen.
It does interest me in the fact that when meeting with former Grand Wizard Robert Shelton, he says he is always a Klan member at heart. It also says that he drove up to this interview with a License plate that reads "NEVER". This was the segregationist slogan, making it seem like the Klan was still a part of his every day life.
The origin of burning crosses was not present if the first KKK. When the Klan was revived in 1915, the movie Birth of a Nation portrays the Klan with burning crosses. Burning crosses was fiction only in the movie until the second Klan took that image and made it a reality.
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