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>PEARL, Miss. (AP) - They're not exactly rooting for Barack Obama, but
>prominent white supremacists anticipate a boost to their cause if he becomes
>the first black president. His election, they say, would trigger a
>backlash - whites rising up, a revolution of sorts - that they think is long
>overdue.
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>He'd be a "visual aid," says former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, in
>trying to bring others around to their view that whites have lost control of
>America. Obama's election, says another, would jar whites into action,
>writing letters, handing out pamphlets rather than sitting around
>complaining.