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To: i-node who wrote (855425)	5/9/2015 9:15:32 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578097

There is a growing Muslim presence in that area. Not to mention Vietnamese and other ethnic groups. Lots of great little restaurants. Gellar did what the Klan used to do. Which is pick an area with mixed demographics an event, hopefully provoking a response. When I lived in Galveston in the early 1980s, there was a growing Vietnamese fishing community just south of the Island. There were some tensions because the Vietnamese fishermen weren't exactly scrupiously following the law. The other fishermen complained to the press and got the attention of the Klan. Who decided to hold a rally in support of the whites in the area. No one wanted that. Galveston had significant black and Hispanic communities who felt threatened by a rally. And many of the Vietnamese in question were ex-RVN. So if the Klan thought they were going to roll in, kick a little brown, black and yellow butt in complete safety, they had seriously misjudged the situation. Everybody started screaming, including the fishermen with their very legitimate complaints. Eventually the Klan made other plans. But things were, uh, volatile there for a while.