neglects to mention that the state is sending a Democrat to the Senate. A totally biased work which misinforms.

He is two degrees removed form Richard Murdouch. Unfortunately, the author is correct. The Republican Party that dominates in Indiana is filled with KKK members. Indiana like southern Missouri has always been a haven for racists. Even a blue dog such as Evan Bayh knows to keep his distance from Obama and the progressive wing of the party--otherwise he might find a burning cross on his lawn.

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Predominantly African American, and close to the area where he did his community and state senate work in IL.

... Gregg was in NO WAY a liberal Dem running for Governor. He was very center-right and Pence was just 100% on the Tea-Train. Unfortunately for us, we got Pence moving into the Gov's mansion in a few months, to carry on Mitch Bonaparte's crony-privatization of the state.

You get the government you vote for.

If Indianans continue to vote for RepubliKKKans who are beholden to corporate megabucks, out of racism and hatred for anything not pink-skinned, then they'll have to pay the price for that prejudice and bigotry. I have no tolerance nor sympathy for those types, and Indiana can shrivel up and die off for all I care.

I think it is time to look at other states from that era when the KKK, in an echo of a supposedly modern GOP strategy, found fertile ground in Northeastern GOP states? The political value of hate and mistrust is a legacy of the Civil War. The GOP seems to have triumphed in a Union of all the hate on all the sides no matter the historical/regional/class/race contradictions.

I think the thesis should be broader than Indiana. Nor should the entire state be isolated and written off.

the Republican Party that flourishes in the state is filled with KKKers. If you look at Indiana politics and culture darting back to Reconstruction there has always been a link to the KKK and other white supremacy groups. Of course there are other states (i.e., Oklahoma, Mississippi, Kentucky etc) that have state and national legislatures that are known supremacists, but Indiana is unique in that it is a northern state that continues to suppress its minority populations in the same manner that a backward southern state does.

saying something about Massachusetts and the Klan - as in significant current activity - not 100 years ago.

Haven't had a chance to do any research on that yet.

Indiana preachers stoke the social issue fire every sunday. Anti-gay rights is still a huge issue with church-goers. But abortion is the biggie. Ronald Reagan is still God here. A weak democratic party + The influence of the Baptist, Catholic, Church Of God, and the Assmbly of God is just too much to turn the state blue. And with the election of the utra-rightwinger, Mike Pence, as governor we are in for more of the same. But the state is slowly shedding itself of the KKK image - a good sign.

Net pravdy v Pravde, net izvestiyy v Izvestiyakh.
There's no truth in Truth ("Pravda&quot and no news in News ("izvestiya&quot .

At least there was a bit of news in Pravda and a bit of truth in Izvestiya.

Then came a serious rift in Pravda's editorial board, a rift that went all the way down to the stringers. All the newsy people went elsewhere. What was left formed Pravda.com.

True believers in Russia seem to form a trinity, three in one. Skinheads, the extreme Orthodox, and those who believe (in) Pravda.com, all united by their paranoia of outsiders and convinced that the entire universe revolves around subverting Russia and all other places are evil.

After the collapse of the old Soviet Union, Правда was purchased by some foreign (Greek) entrepreneurs and run by them for 4 or 5 years. When they lost interest in the project and started another paper -- where those newsy people went (to write about crime and scandal?) -- Правда was on a slab at the morgue for a few weeks. Until it was purchased by the Коммунистическая партия Российской Федерации; КПРФ; Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Rossiyskoy Federatsii; KPRF.

(I hadn't known that that party has gone over to the Russia First end of the political spectrum, but you're probably a great deal more familiar with the internal scene than I am.)

When my favorite Russian publication went through a metamorphosis, it was still very similar to the vision of the original founders:

http://exiledonline.com/

(Where I first read Matt Taibbi. Still an interesting source of unique commentary.)

...on how our own opinion writers don't necessarily understand what is going on in the countries they write about(Iran/Iraq/Libya/Pakistan ect)

But I'm not sure about the analysis of the present.

A few things:

My father is from Indiana. From the article: "Sometimes referred to as the 'northernmost southern state'". That's what he always says.

It's so crazy that the state constitution flat out denied access to "negroes and mulattoes". I think there might have been an early revision to change it from "shall" not enter or reside in the state to "should" not. And just in case they had problems enforcing that, they also included "No negro or mulatto shall have the right of suffrage." Hard core racism.

I find this info fascinating, as my family and I were run out of a home that was bought and paid for. Our trouble began after making a legitimate complaint about a cop, so we are not impressed by any Hoosier authority, as we could not get ONE ounce of help with things like neighbors constantly terrorizing us and our animals with devices -???- that exploded, and fireworks, guns...you name it. And then an attorney told us we had a 'beautiful' ~LOL~ civil rights case. We were taken to the bank by this man to the tune of FORTY THOUSAND dollars, and before anything went to trial he 'retired'. We believe he was paid off. My husbands job is here, or we would leave Indiana. We are living proof that it's corrupt. To the core. And the trouble has followed. So....hmmmm.