At Gateway to Hamptons, Ku Klux Klan Advertises for New Members

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Al Baker
A Ku Klux Klan recruitment form and crude drawing were left in
Hampton Bays driveways. Credit Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times
NEW YORK---All along the bucolic back roads of this blue-collar gateway to the more opulent Hamptons, residents agree: There is nothing sophisticated about the Ku Klux Klan’s continuing drive to recruit new members. The pamphlets the group has distributed seem to have been made in somebody’s basement, printed on threadbare paper with a printer in need of ink. They are stuffed into plastic sandwich bags, along with a few Jolly Rancher candies serving as weights, and tossed onto driveways in the dead of night. Since it is considered constitutionally protected free speech, the Southampton Town police say, there is no criminality. [link]