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Whippersnapper: What Aryan Foothold?

Whippersnapper: What would you define as a (white supremacist) “foothold”? What does that even mean? Two? Five? Seven losers in a van somewhere talking about painting swastikas or scaring people with literature like this? If Butler hadn't owned a house and a few acres, the few that were here wouldn't have had a place to stay. I don't think there was ever an ideological “foothold” here, just some violent, low IQ ex-cons who stayed at Butler's compound, which is now gone.

Question: Do your out-of-state family and friends associate North Idaho with Aryans today?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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