Democrats Still The Home Of The KKK

The Democrats' tar baby.

State Democratic party leaders are denouncing Carrol Crawford, candidate for Rowan County commissioner, for views he advocated as a Ku Klux Klan leader.

Crawford resigned in 1987 after two years as North Carolina grand dragon of the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. He estimated at the time that he had led more than 200 street walks in communities all over the Carolinas.

Earlier that year, Crawford was sentenced to 30 days in jail and fined $500 for burning a cross at a Charlotte Klan rally.

North Carolina Democratic Party officials also are condemning the comments of Bivins Hollar, a candidate for the state Senate from Catawba County.

Both Hollar and Crawford filed as Democrats.

Well, somehow Robert Byrd managed to prosper within the Democratic Party fold for all those years.