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White nationalism movement has long history in Michigan
(Detroit News) Lansing — Michigan residents’ participation in the white nationalism movement has put the state on the national stage.
It was the first state to protest stay-at-home orders in April 2020.
A planned kidnapping of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer by those with ties to militia groups was exposed by law enforcement agencies in October.
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Historian Craig Fox documented “The Realm of Michigan” as one of the leading states for Ku Klux Klan membership during its resurgence in the 1920s in his 2011 book, “Everyday Klansfolk: White Protestant Life and the KKK in 1920s Michigan” (Michigan State University Press).
“As it had done elsewhere, the Klan swept across Michigan like wildfire,” Fox wrote. More than 60 Michigan counties had at least one KKK unit in that period. ...........(more)
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/02/06/white-supremacy-has-long-history-michigan/4372296001/