Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 18:07:24 -0400
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Confederate flags
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

"Strong, Lee" wrote:
>
>         Definitely.  Again, Chalmers' _Hooded Americanism_ traces the link
> very clearly and I recommend the book to anyone who wants to learn more
> about the subject.  Having read this book proved very helpful when we were
> fighting the Klan in Mississippi in the mid-70s.
>         1970s, not 1870s.

Maybe you have details about a story I heard somewhere about the Klan
trying to hold recruiting rallys at Mississippi universities.  Most of
them went through the angst that we're talking about here -- do we let
them have their rally?  Forbid wearing masks?  Ban them and worry about
free speech?  Take pictures and have nightmares about Big Brother?

At one of them, some genius wrote an editorial in the school paper
saying basically, "The Klan is un-gentlemenly.  They're *un-Southern!*"
At that school, the Klan bascally folded their sheets and snuck off.

If you know any details, I'd like to get a copy of that editorial for my
"neat stuff" file.

--
Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."