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"After years of fighting to clear its name, a small Kansas town [has finally been] taken off a list of hate group homes," noted a March 21 wire service report. The town of 2,500 "was once named as a home of Ku Klux Klan members. Until now many of them had never heard their town was associated with a hate group, but it's something officials have been dealing with for years." The Southern Poverty Law Center has finally relented and removed Lakin from its national "hate group" map, which had listed the town as hosting the "Imperial Klans of America" since 2000.
According to political researcher Laird Wilcox, author of The Watchdogs--a critical study of leftist "anti-hate group" organizations like ...