“ There’s more collaboration.”īurnside, who declined to say how many local residents were involved in his group, was born in Ulysses and raised there by a grandfather who he said was a Nazi sympathizer who fought in the U.S. “We have meetings every 30 days,” he said. It has a presence in many states, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks extremist groups, and the NSM was among the groups taking part in the violent August 2017 rally in defense of Confederate statues in Charlottesville. “I can tell you with certainty that since November 2016, activity has doubled, whether it’s feet on the street or money orders or people helping out,” said Daniel Burnside, 43, a woodcarver who owns the Nazi-themed home and directs the state chapter of the National Socialist Movement, a far-right group that was founded in Detroit in the mid-1970s. Potter County is staunchly Republican and has voted Democratic once since 1888 Trump received 80 percent of the vote, tying with Herbert Hoover for the highest percentage won. One organizer would not say when the groups had last met, simply commenting: “It’s just a good time.” Two weeks later, the area’s two neo-Nazi groups, the National Socialist Movement (NSM) and Aryan Strike Force, held a “white unity meeting” in Ulysses to discuss their response to Trump and plan joint action.
Local police said the group had not openly recruited in years. A regional newspaper ran Klan advertisements saying, “God bless the KKK.” “You can sleep tonight knowing the Klan is awake,” the message read. Two months before the 2016 presidential election, the KKK established a “24 hour Klan Line” and sent goody bags containing lollipops and fliers to hundreds of homes. Neo-Nazis and their opponents here say that white extremists have grown more confident - and confrontational - since the rise of Donald Trump. The group had met and conducted weapons training in Ulysses. A terminally ill member was willing to hide a bomb in his oxygen tank and blow himself up, prosecutors said. This year, after a sting operation, federal prosecutors charged six members of an Aryan Strike Force cell with weapons and drug offenses, contending that they had plotted a suicide attack at an anti-racism protest. In the mid-2000s, it hosted the World Aryan Congress, a gathering of neo-Nazis, skinheads and Klan members. White supremacy has had a continuous presence in Ulysses and surrounding Potter County since the Ku Klux Klan arrived a century ago, giving the town - with a population today of about 650 - improbable national significance. But on the north side of town, along the main thoroughfare, is a far different display: a home dedicated to Adolf Hitler, where star-spangled banners and Nazi flags flutter side by side and wooden swastikas stand on poles.
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The traffic sign that greets visitors on the south side of Ulysses, a tiny town in rural far north-central Pennsylvania, is suitably quaint - a silhouette of a horse-drawn cart reminding drivers that the Amish use the roads, too. How white supremacists split a quiet Rust Belt town
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