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by Rory McVeigh


  Twitter, 194. See also media

  Tyler, Elizabeth, 4, 176–77, 182, 222

  Tyler, Mary Elizabeth, 28–30

  UltraViolet, 160

  unemployment: and 1920s economic downturn, 67, 78; and age, 79, 82, 88, 232; and Great Recession (2008) and recovery, 50, 79–82, 88, 103–4; and support for Trump, 107, 109–12, 111, 120, 123, 231–33

  United Klans of America, 40. See also Ku Klux Klan (1960s)

  Unite the Right rally (Charlottesville, 2017), 224, 225

  U.S. Klans, 40. See also Ku Klux Klan (1960s)

  Valparaiso University (Indiana), 177

  Vanguard America, 224

  violence: Charlottesville rallies (2017), 224, 225; and Ku Klux Klan, 24–25, 40, 178–81; and slavery, 20–21, 44–45; at Trump campaign events, 190, 192

  Volstead Act, 152

  voting: and Ku Klux Klan (1920s), 35, 57, 68; and population density, 231; and race, 22–23, 39, 42, 125–27, 134, 134–35; sudden changes in, 51–52, 126–28, 133; and women, 33, 126, 130, 136

  Voting Rights Act (1965), 42, 127

  Walch, Timothy, 151

  Walker, Scott, 90

  Wallace, George, 16, 42, 83–85

  Wall Street Journal, 196

  Walton, Jack, 180

  Washington, George, 42

  Watson, Thomas, 27

  Waynesberg, Pennsylvania, 80–81

  Weekly Standard, 196

  “When the Last Factory Leaves a Mountain Town” (Citizen Times), 104

  white nationalism: and alt-rights, 194–95, 225; conditions for rise of, 7, 11–12, 17, 20, 101, 123, 127, 216–20, 222, 225; and Democrats and Republicans, 43, 208–9; and Ku Klux Klan (1920s), 17, 20, 32; and misogyny, 161; and protectionism, 7, 171; and Trump, 16–17, 47–53, 77, 83, 109–10, 123, 132, 190–91

  white supremacy: and Democratic Party, 46, 204; and Ku Klux Klan (1920s), 3, 5, 28–29, 76, 131, 143; and Ku Klux Klan (1960s), 3; and Ku Klux Klan (Reconstruction-era), 3, 20; restoration of after Civil War, 20–25; and Trump, 117, 161

  women: and support for Trump, 64, 112–13, 160–64; voting, 33–34, 126, 130, 136; in the work force, 73, 107, 113, 113–14, 232

  Women’s Ku Klux Klan (WKKK), 32, 34, 73–74, 130. See also Ku Klux Klan (1920s)

  Yoke, C. C., 178

  Zald, Mayer, 56

 

 

 


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