If you were in San Francisco or Los Angeles or San Diego and did this (especially in a High School) you might get glass bottles or rocks or cans or clubs thrown through your windows or you might be beat up by Hispanic gangs or even black gangs if you did this there. or you could also be killed or even tortured by some people in big cities for doing this there. But, places in the country like Mt. Shasta are different and have a lot of white red necks (this just means conservative white blue collar people who haven't been to college) who haven't traveled much away from this area maybe ever so they might not even know about this.
Over the years in the 1960s and 1970s everyone had bumper stickers on their cars about anything imaginable. It was a much more tolerant time than now. I for one had many funny or interesting bumper stickers during college on my cars too then.
99% of the people don't do this anymore because they don't want to die or have their cars burned up or be maimed in California or most U.S. states now.
Now the polarization is so bad that in some areas if you had a Trump Flag you might even be killed for it and in other areas if you had any kind of Democratic flag you might be beat up or killed too. So, it just depends upon where you are these days.
Because most people don't want to die only the most radical or crazy people carry banners on either side for about the last 20 years time.
Note: I decided to leave this the way it is to show how the rumor mill changes things over 100 years but the actual documentation of the event is in the article quoted below.
A friend of mine was talking about the Ku Klux Klan in California in the 1920s today:
This is the story he told me today. To have this make any sense to anyone today you need to understand that the KKK was for Prohibition which means against legal liquor of any kind. (Which on the surface might seem like a good thing) But, it tore our country apart because poor men drank denatured alcohol who couldn't afford bootleg whiskey and went blind, crazy and died during prohibition too. So, it killed thousands of men especially that were poor during prohibition who couldn't afford to go to illegal Speakeasies where they could buy expensive bootleg whisky.
Because during the 1600s through the 1800s water often was so polluted you could die from it in Europe and in U.S. cities. So, you drank beer at any age because this would kill anything in it and also usually beer is boiled I think before putting it in bottles (not sure about this). anyway, both children and adult males drank beer instead of water because if you drank water you could often die from pollution.
So, in California (likely southern California) an Irish store owner was rumored to be selling bootleg liquor. But, this was only a rumor because he had stopped doing this because he had been threatened by the KKK who were vigilante enforcers of the liquor ban everywhere during the 1920s.
So, when he found out that the KKK was coming to kill him and burn down his business he called the local Sheriff of his town that was his friend. The Sheriff confronted an off duty deputy from another city and the KKK vigilantes and the Sheriff shot the off duty deputy from another city and killed him. Then the governor got involved who was also Irish and he drove the KKK out of California because of this incident and others. Eventually, prohibition was ended which prevented many many deaths on all sides. This issue was similar to Marijuana by the way where 50,000 people were killed on both sides of the Mexican border before California legalized Marijuana. They were mostly machine gunned or beheaded and mostly were either gang cartel members or people who didn't like the gangs land Sheriffs and their families in Mexico or the U.S. were often killed by the Cartels too.
So, as a result of vigilante Justice around Prohibition the California Governor drove the KKK out of California sometime during the 1920s. This is likely why Trump hates California because California was one of the first states to drive out the KKK in the 1920s. Because Trump's Dad was KKK in the 1920s and likely until he passed on too.
By the way I don't like Alcohol or marijuana and think they are both bad. But in the interests of saving lives I think both should be legalized and regulated so 50,000 people don't die now and untold thousands that were killed in the 1920s by the KKK in California and other states.
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From the Archives: Ku Klux Klan images from 1920s Southern California
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From the Archives: Ku Klux Klan images from 1920s Southern California
March 6, 1922: Members of the Ku Klux Klan at funeral services for a member at Inglewood Cemetery. (Los Angeles Times)
During the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan was very active in Southern California - especially in the city of Inglewood. Three of these images from the Los Angeles Times archives are related to an April 22, 1922, KKK raid in Inglewood that left one man dead.
In a May 30, 1999, article, Cecilia Rasmussen wrote about the raid:
…Inglewood--then the county's agricultural hub--was the nation's fastest-growing city. And to keep it a white Protestant town, klansmen posted signs that read "Caucasian-only."
On a cold spring night--April 22, 1922--more than 100 armed and hooded klansmen broke into the Inglewood home of alleged bootleggers--Fidel and Angela Elduayer, Basque immigrants from Spain. The intruders forced the couple's two teenage daughters to disrobe--contemporary accounts are silent on what may have followed--then ransacked the house and brutally beat Fidel and his brother, Mathias. When the Inglewood police arrived, shots were exchanged, leaving one klansman dead and two wounded.
Two days later, klan-sympathizing Inglewood residents--hostile and armed with pistols--jammed the tiny county coroner's hearing room, where the victim's body lay on a table in the corner. Maintaining the "night riders' " innocence, Grand Goblin William S. Coburn, head of the klan in California and five other states, declared that his men had only tried to "clean up the town's bootleggers."
But an Inglewood traffic cop, Frank Woerner, and a 19-year-old eyewitness, Clyde Vannatta, told another story: Woerner testified that on the night of the raid he had received a call from the Elduayers' terrorized Japanese neighbor, who later hid with six small children in a nearby field. The officer hitched a ride outside Inglewood City Hall from Vannatta, who happened to be riding by on his motorcycle. Skidding to a stop at Pine Street, they were met by an armed group of hooded klansmen.
When the klan leader called out for the two to throw up their hands, Woerner replied, "Throw up your hands yourself. I'm an officer," as he shined his flashlight on his badge.
But when the leader--who later was identified as Inglewood Constable Medford Mosher--made a threatening motion with his gun, Woerner drew his pistol and shot him dead as he and Vannatta quickly headed for cover.
An exchange of gunfire ensued; Woerner wounded Mosher's son, Walter, in the arm and another klansman, Leonard Ruegg, in the groin.
While the gunfight continued, other klansmen ransacked the house, slashing the furniture and breaking everything in sight. They dragged the Elduayer brothers--bound, gagged and badly beaten--to a car and dumped them six miles away.
On the basis of testimony by Woerner and Vannatta, a grand jury was convened. Meanwhile, another foe of the klan, Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Thomas Woolwine, launched an investigation along with state and federal agents. Ultimately, 150 reluctant klansmen were called to testify. Investigators from Woolwine's office searched the klan's headquarters in the Haas building at 7th Street and Broadway in Los Angeles. There, they found robes and hoods, crosses, membership cards and dues receipts of several hundred Los Angeles, Kern and Orange County men who had paid $10 to join. ….
While many KKK members were exposed, the group rebounded. They gained revenge by forcing Woolwine into retirement.
Following World War II, the Klan's influence quickly faded in Southern California.
Rasmussen's full 1999 article Klan's Tentacles Once Extended to Southland is online.
April 26, 1922: Raid on the Ku Klux Klan Los Angeles office. From left is Undersheriff Eugene Biscailuz, Deputy Sheriff Joe Nolan, KKK secretary C. R. Isham opening safe, and Chief Deputy Dist. Atty Doran, Man on right is unidentified. (Los Angeles Times)
April 29, 1922: Dist. Atty. Nelson of Orange County, left, Dist. Atty. Gearhart of Fresno, center, and Det. James Smith of Dist. Atty. Thomas Woolwine's office, right, examine a Ku Klux Klan gown and mask seized in the recent raid on Grand Goblin William S. Coburn's office. (Los Angeles Times)
April 25, 1922: During a coroner's inquest, Inglewood motorcycle Officer Blake Shambeau, designated by an arrow, admitted the Inglewood raid was planned by the Ku Klux Klan. Shambeau was not present during the raid. (Los Angeles Times)
March 6, 1922: Members of the Ku Klux Klan at funeral for member at Inglewood Cemetery. (Los Angeles Times)
June 29, 1924: Members of the Ku Klux Klan gather at 5th and Olive streets in downtown Los Angeles for church service at the Temple Baptist Church. (Los Angeles Times)
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