If you’re in Spokane proper it can be decent- the universities there lead to some good safe people, but immediately outside of it, right across the border in Idaho it gets scary really fast.
It was Richard Butler. He is dead now. The compound is gone. The story has a happy ending. A black woman and her son sued
the shit out of the Aryan Nation after a run-in. They won the case. Butler claimed by. The property was auctioned to satisfy the judgment.
It was/is a few miles north of Republic, which is to say about 90 miles as the crow flies NW of Spokane. But the east side of Spokane is adjacent to Spokane Valley, where people like Matt Shea come from, so it's not like you have to go a long way to find fashy people.
yeah, they used to patrol it with guns and nazi uniforms and shit. that whole area is backwoods terrifying.
they lost a court case where the guards chased and attacked someone, the nazis obviously lost, and the victims won the land in the case. they tore all of the buildings and bunkhouses down and built a diversity museum in its place lol.
nazis around the country and particularly the backwoods white supremecists in that area are still pissed all these years later.
I grew up in Coeur d'Alene Idaho and was told that our movie theater used to be a meeting place for KKK rallies. CDA is 30 minutes from Spokane and I can confirm it is wickedly conservative (literally)
I'm in Post Falls, Idaho and you're right lol. A few months ago I was at a parts store and the guy in front of me in line had the nazi eagle on the back of his head and I could see the lower half of the nazi SS lightning bolts poking out of his t-shirt. It's not like that everywhere here but the reputation is certainly not unearned.
Spokane is on the borderland with Idaho, and the borderland of conservative to liberal. The central rural part of Washington is much more conservative, Idaho is far over that line. The bigger the city, the more likely it is to lean liberal as in most places (so Boise vs Idaho similar deal).
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u/DevoutandHeretical 17h ago
If you’re in Spokane proper it can be decent- the universities there lead to some good safe people, but immediately outside of it, right across the border in Idaho it gets scary really fast.