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ULYSSES, Pa. The traffic sign that greets visitors on the south side of Ulysses, a tiny town in rural far north-central Pennsylvania, is suitably quaint a silhouette of a horse-drawn cart reminding drivers that the Amish use the roads, too. But on the north side of town, along the main thoroughfare, is a far different display: a home dedicated to Adolf Hitler, where star-spangled banners and Nazi flags flutter side by side and wooden swastikas stand on poles.
White supremacy has had a continuous presence in Ulysses and surrounding Potter County since the Ku Klux Klan arrived a century ago, giving the town with a population today of about 650 improbable national significance. In the mid-2000s, it hosted the World Aryan Congress, a gathering of neo-Nazis, skinheads and Klan members.
This year, after a sting operation, federal prosecutors charged six members of an Aryan Strike Force cell with weapons and drug offenses, contending that they had plotted a suicide attack at an anti-racism protest. A terminally ill member was willing to hide a bomb in his oxygen tank and blow himself up, prosecutors said. The group had met and conducted weapons training in Ulysses.
Neo-Nazis and their opponents here say that white extremists have grown more confident and confrontational since the rise of Donald Trump. Two months before the 2016 presidential election, the KKK established a 24 hour Klan Line and sent goody bags containing lollipops and fliers to hundreds of homes. You can sleep tonight knowing the Klan is awake, the message read. A regional newspaper ran Klan advertisements saying, God bless the KKK.
Local police said the group had not openly recruited in years.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/how-white-supremacists-split-a-quiet-rust-belt-town/ar-BBLbDtL?li=BBnb7Kz
dalton99a
(81,526 posts)This article is a must read.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)Mopar151
(9,989 posts)LIBERTY GUNS BIBLE TRUMP (A Ulysses, PA resident, on the neighbor's politics)
I might go one letter more LGBTQ = Liberty Guns Bible Trump Quislings
jayschool2013
(2,312 posts)Liberty Guns Bible Trump Quisling Incoherent Assholes
CatMor
(6,212 posts)some of the people interviewed find nothing wrong with it.
To think we have a so called president who encourages white supremists doesn't seem real. trump has got to be gone for the good of the country. Him and some of the nut cases in Congress.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)CatMor
(6,212 posts)Initech
(100,081 posts)We're heading down a dark path right now.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)tRump supporters, many, have no idea where this country is headed as what they have now disappears, and they will wonder WTF, how did this happen. I know some people that are very poor, and they are whacked-out tRump fans, fully dank the Kool-Aid and then some. And it does absolutely no good to talk to them.
oasis
(49,390 posts)moved to Hawaii (bluest, of blue states). He married a mixed Hawaiian lady and started a family in Windward Oahu. He had a "secret"hatred of blacks, Tongans, Fijians or any dark skinned people. This would be revealed every time he was drinking. Whatever he was taught back on the mainland, stuck with him. I stopped my association w/him many years ago before I left the Islands.
"You Have to Be Carefully Taught" as the song goes.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)Basically, what goes in first sticks!!!
lunasun
(21,646 posts)I'm not talking about just religion based groups either
Boomerproud
(7,955 posts)What century are we living in again?
apkhgp
(1,068 posts)The Right Wing is now being made up of the KKK, Nazis, and White Supremacists. I have to be careful that stuff does not stink up my computer.