Klan ? Opaque ??

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Yes, Robert Byrd was former Klansman. But while the Klan was evil, all the people in it were not. I interviewed people in Indiana --- where the Klan was the strongest --- not in the Deep South --- and some people though of it as a social club.

Innocently, they invited Jewish merchants to join them at a cross-burning picnic
(!!!)

{Pic of Bob Byrd and/or a placid picnic and/or a cross-burning.}