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Mississippi Governor, Haley Barbour, praises the White Supremacist group, the Citizens Council, in a new profile in “The Weekly Standard.” Talking Points Memo reports:

“You heard of the Citizens Councils? Up north they think it was like the KKK,” said Barbour. “Where I come from it was an organization of town leaders. In Yazoo City they passed a resolution that said anybody who started a chapter of the Klan would get their ass run out of town. If you had a job, you’d lose it. If you had a store, they’d see nobody shopped there. We didn’t have a problem with the Klan in Yazoo City.”

The White Citizens Council movement was founded in Mississippi in 1954, shortly after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision that outlawed segregated public schools, and was dedicated to political activities opposing civil rights — notably boycotts of pro-civil rights individuals in Barbour’s hometown, as opposed to Barbour’s recollection of actions against the Klan. It was distinguished from the Klan by the public self-identification of its members, and its image of suits and ties as opposed to white robes and nooses.

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The “Citizens Council” or the “White Citizens Council,” know known as “The COuncil Of Conservative Citizens” is listed by the SPLC as a white supremacist organization. They recently called for a boycott of the movie “Thor.”

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