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Klan numbers are down, but member says
recruitment is up
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• Don't call it a comeback, yet. But if the Texas
  Knights, a branch of the Ku Klux Klan based in
  East Texas, get their way, you could call it
  that. One recruiter, who asked to be called
  Henry, says there is a concerted effort to
  increase their membership. "There are flier
  drives, word of mouth, people meeting each other,
  we reach out to political meetings, to tea party
  meetings, conservative organizations,
  everything," Henry told CNN. Henry says that in
  the last few months, he has personally recruited
  over 40 new members. "Our government considers us
  domestic terrorists, they consider us right-wing
  extremists. Because of that ... we wear the robe,
  the hood, to protect our identities and not to
  make us a bull's-eye or target from FBI. While
  the Klan's numbers are very small, and their
  activities have primarily been limited to an
  occasional gathering or leafleting, doesn't mean
  that individuals can't act violently and commit
  an attack within the United States. This push for
  new members has reached far and wide across the
  United States. Those who monitor these types of
  extremist groups say their numbers are nowhere
  near where they were in their heyday in the
  1920s, when they boasted nearly 5 million
  members. It is said that the Klan has a
  membership of about 5,000 today.

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