Racists, residents fight for Whitefish
The email to a group that promotes diversity in northwestern Montana warned that white supremacists would encircle the advocacy organization’s office and end with someone “swinging by a rope from the nearest lamp post.” “Those days are not far off Jew,” wrote the author, identified only as Rudolf, to the group Love Lives Here in the Flathead Valley. “It’s best you leave now while you can.” The ski resort town of Whitefish, 6,600 people strong in a valley just west of Glacier National Park about 60 miles from the Canadian border, is an unlikely flashpoint between white supremacist groups and residents trying to preserve the town’s reputation as a welcoming vacation destination/Matt Volz, Associated Press. More here.