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Talullahhound
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Same here, Old Diver..
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4/11/2022 4:47:17 PM
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I grew up in the North and while I never saw a clansman, I remember that they would burn crosses on the lawns of blacks that infiltrated white neighborhoods. And it was rumored that a building I worked in that had had many lives before it became a govenrment building, was once the headquarters of the Clan for the area. While the South is supposedly known for being racist, I think that the North had probably an equal number of racists who acted out. I don't think they did a lot of lynching, but the harassment factor was there.
I don't think being a clansman was something people made public, even to their families. But they did exist, although I doubt they were ever mainstream. '
Interestingly when my house was being built, on the corner of our street, someone had put a noose up in the tree. I don't know how it got there or by whom, or why, but I had the builder go and and take it down. Still don't know if it was a joke, a warning (although we don't have any black families here), or whatever, but I felt shocked.
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