I want to escape from the klan vortex for a minute. It doesn't matter if some particular republican senator attends klan meetings if his personal belief system is identical to the klan and his policies are klan policies. Go to any of the many legitimate KKK websites and find a policy of the current day Klan (even if you don't believe they really exist) on there that isn't a core value of the current republican party. It didn't always used to be that way, but it is now.




Now back to the Klan:

Do you believe that since David Duke is no longer the grand wizard of his local klan group that nobody else took his place and they all just evaporated? Or do you think they all became teenaged skinheads? What do you think happened to them?

The members of David Dukes klan who were in their 20's and 30's and 40's two decades ago are now in their 40's and 50's and 60's. They are now further along in their careers and holding more important positions in their communities than they did 20 years ago; they didn't just give up and join the ACLU when he lost the election. It is the difference between the angry young man skinhead who grows out of his neonazi phaze and what is really a way of life.

David Duke was not a last hurrah. He was an anomaly. The klan has always been a secret society that does not publicize itself--exceptions to the rule notwithstanding.