7. Indiana
Indiana doesn’t exactly spring to mind when someone mentions racist America, but the Midwestern state has a surprisingly rich history of racism, specifically Klan racism. Although today there are only five active KKK chapters in Indiana (of its 12 active hate groups), the Klan was particularly nasty there at the beginning of the 20th century. The song “Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday was based on a poem written about a photo of a lynching, the most famous such photo of a lynching in Marion, Indiana in 1930. The other hate groups are two neo-nazi and five White Nationalist.
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