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ColesCountyDem

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7. Weird. I live just south of MTV, and haven't heard of a KKK rally since 1995.

Reply to Midnight Writer (Reply #6)

Fri Aug 28, 2015, 09:32 AM

Aug 2015

When was this rally?

There were many 'sundown towns' here in southern Illinois, but that policy ceased to exists in the '50s, in practical terms. The par about the churches may be true, because small churches cover southern IL like scattered grapeshot.

IL was a Union state, of course, but there was a sharp division of loyalties south of the National Road.

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