Uneasy Neighbors in a Southern Gothic Tale

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By KIM SEVERSON and ROBBIE BROWN
Published: January 12, 2012

LAURENS, S.C. — The Redneck Shop has been selling Confederate bikinis and white satin robes on the historic courthouse square in this former mill town for so long that most people have learned to ignore it.

<..> Now, in a quirk of fate laced with lawsuits, religious conversions and a small-town Southern narrative Harper Lee might deliver, a black pastor will eventually control what just might be the most famous white supremacist shop in America.

<..> One might think church members would simply shut down the shop. They cannot. Not yet. The terms of the deed stipulate that Mr. Howard, who has hosted international gatherings of neo-Nazi groups in the building, can keep the shop until he dies.

<..> “When people get to the root of it, this is a horror story about what happens to young guys who are drifting and fall prey to the Klan,” Pastor Kennedy said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/us/in-...all?src=tp

Good story. I've heard of this place, it's stuck in hatred.