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Racists, residents fight for Whitefish

In this Dec. 6, 2016 file photo, Richard Spencer, who leads a movement that mixes racism, white nationalism and populism, speaks at the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas. The Montana ski resort town of Whitefish is an unlikely flashpoint between white supremacists and residents trying to preserve the small town’s reputation as a welcoming vacation destination. But that’s just what happened after the mother of Spencer, a so-called “alt-right” movement leader, said last week she was being pressured to sell her property and denounce her son’s views. (David J. Phillip, File/Associated Press)
In this Dec. 6, 2016 file photo, Richard Spencer, who leads a movement that mixes racism, white nationalism and populism, speaks at the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas. The Montana ski resort town of Whitefish is an unlikely flashpoint between white supremacists and residents trying to preserve the small town’s reputation as a welcoming vacation destination. But that’s just what happened after the mother of Spencer, a so-called “alt-right” movement leader, said last week she was being pressured to sell her property and denounce her son’s views. (David J. Phillip, File/Associated Press)

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.



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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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