They are flexible in their operations: one weekend a member may wear the hood of a Klansman, the next the insignia of the (equally racialist) Aryan Nations.

ECONOMIST: The Ku Klux Klan

And the information they exposed resulted in the murder indictment of Edgar Ray Killen, a reputed Klansman.

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Cajuns adored him for speaking their peculiar form of French, the blacks all the more for destroying David Duke, a Ku Klux Klansman, in one gubernatorial race.

ECONOMIST: American politics