Curse 2 a.m. brain! Yes, named that favorite son of DC!
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Anyway, looking it up, cross-burning wasn't really originally a thing during the OG postwar Klan in the South The author of the novel The Clansman made up that they used the "ancestral call to arms of the Scottish clans" to make them sound cooler in 1905
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Then DW Griffith put it in his movie, then Birth of a Nation helped spark the creation of the 20th century "New Klan", and then it became an actual thing This is why movies are bad
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I thought some groups also had intense, generalized anti-immigrant sentiment.
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Well sure But they thought of Scottish and English immigrants differently than "genuinely foreign" ones
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