Who else remembers the I-95 "You are in Klan Country" Billboard circa 1970? [View all]

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During the late 1960s-early 1970s my family drove from the northeast to Florida many times. One of the landmarks along the way, on I-95, was a welcome to some-county-or-state billboard citing it as birthplace of the Klan, or You are in Klan Country, and with galloping Klansman pictured.

You really could not get from the northeast to the south without encountering this thing. It was right on I-95.

Anyone remember it, and where it was? I think that heading south it was before the "South of the Border" signs started, which would put it in North Carolina. (Or maybe it was a county in SC)

It was an amazing and appalling artifact... you couldn't drive south on America's most traveled highway without being instructed to turn the fuck around. (Unless you were coming there to 'fight integration and communism')

And I am pretty sure it was still in place when we landed on the moon. (Recall that Wallace carried most of the south as an independent segregationist presidential candidate in 1968.)



This picture is of a different, but quite similar, billboard of the era. (This one was apparently on a highway 303 when you entered NC)