High Country Extremism: Homeland on the Range

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http://mediamatters.org/blog/201111150006?frontpage

High Country Extremism: Homeland on the Range

November 15, 2011 8:44 am ET by David Holthouse

In a four-part series released over the next two days, Media Matters will report on the recent influx of white supremacists and Patriot group members to the town of Kalispell, Montana, which has made the region the hottest flash point of right-wing extremism in the country.

At first glance the Pioneer Little Europe website seems like it could be the work of the Montana Office of Tourism. Photographs depict the rugged beauty of the Flathead Valley region near Glacier National Park in northwest Montana.

One image shows a young blond-haired girl playing in a meadow overlooking Kalispell, the largest town in the area, with a population around 20,000. snip

But then there's this: A scan of a full-page advertisement in a recent edition of the Flathead Beacon, the local paper, with photographs of 47 babies newly delivered in the Kalispell Regional Medical Center. All but one are fair-skinned with light-colored hair. "Wonderful white babies being born in Kalispell," the website reads. "What do the babies look like being born in your town?"



Pioneer Little Europe spokeswoman April Gaede's website asks,
"What do the babies look like being born in your town? The local
schools are about 98% White,and we all know what that means."

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