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Duke shrewdly focused his energy on teenagers. Like their counterparts elsewhere, Winston-Salem's youths are energetic but idle, racing cars along the strip on weekend nights, looking for a little excitement. The Klan can potentially fill a void in their lives and they in turn can provide badly needed vitality to a dying creed...
Klan revivals are occurring throughout the country. If Duke is as persuasive as he is perverse, he may spread his faith through Winston-Salem. But he is trying to reach the kids informally through the school system. And apart from one or two crackpots, the school board members are good, solid, God-fearing citizens. They don't permit sex education in the schools. It is doubtful they will permit the Klan...
...MANY historic, religious and economic reasons, Winston-Salem differs from other Southern cities. Moravian German influences are as heavy as the Southern Baptists.' Industrial giants far outnumber heirs of plantation owners. The town has factories and warehouses but it also has museums and concert halls. Joe Grady is a mild aberration there...
...bankers than outspokenly bigoted whites, although it is too soon to see whether these middle class blacks, riding in on a wave of affirmative action hirings, are more than tokens. They are certainly not representative of the blacks who are clustered in small homes and housing projects in East Winston. There are conservative whites in wealthier sections of the city, and on nearby small farms but, from what I could see, they are more responsive to Howard K. Jarvis and Proposition 13 than to David Duke and the revival of white supremacy...
...adventure as a reporter in North Carolina but it was not typical. More common were dull evenings at high school commencements or jaunts to union meetings at rural hamburger stands. At the Forsyth County Courthouse I heard well-meaning politicians worry about library book thefts and ambulance service. At Winston-Salem's City Hall I watched a gruff old Republican alderman roll his eyes while a fellow board member--a 28-year-old former Black Panther--discussed problems of old people in a housing project...