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"Northern Idaho" used to be shorthand for "extreme right wing" due to it being the location of the headquarters of the Aryan Nations and location of the Ruby Ri
by Exmoor 6y ago
"Northern Idaho" used to be shorthand for "extreme right wing" due to it being the location of the headquarters of the Aryan Nations and location of the Ruby Ridge standoff. Those references are over twenty years old now, so no idea how much that ideology survives there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_Nations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_Nations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Weaver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Weaver
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge
- cogman10 6y agoThe unfortunate thing about getting in the news for being headquarters to nazis is that's how other nazis find you. Idaho (particularly northern idaho) is still nazi town. Fun story, the guy from the oatmeal grew up in northern idaho and made a blog post about the nazis there. https://theoatmeal.com/blog/bus https://theoatmeal.com/blog/bus
- masonic 6y agoEven NPR's Maria Hinojosa couldn't find any "Nazi Town" in Idaho, as she had expected to. See the "Our Private Idaho" episode of "America By The Numbers": https://shop.pbs.org/WC6542.html https://shop.pbs.org/WC6542.html Can you name any ten Nazis there? Five? Three?
- rconti 6y agoEndless sea of trump flags starting just north of Moscow.