The Ku Klux Klan once again controls Indiana

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8. Not sure that the author was writing the entire state off. I think that he was noting that

the Republican Party that flourishes in the state is filled with KKKers. If you look at Indiana politics and culture darting back to Reconstruction there has always been a link to the KKK and other white supremacy groups. Of course there are other states (i.e., Oklahoma, Mississippi, Kentucky etc) that have state and national legislatures that are known supremacists, but Indiana is unique in that it is a northern state that continues to suppress its minority populations in the same manner that a backward southern state does.