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apnu

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7. As others pointed out the KKK wasn't born there it was given safe harbor there.

Reply to Buckeyeblue (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 19, 2021, 10:30 AM

Jan 2021

They actually killed the KKK after a few years of terror. But Indiana let them exist in the empty wastes of the open prairie. From there they made a comeback in the 1920s. All of the Confederate memorials that dot the South came from this second wave of hate.

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