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stonecutter357

(12,992 posts) Sun Jan 18, 2026, 09:44 PM 12 hrs ago

Inside America's "Most Racist Town" (Harrison, AR)

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Inside America's "Most Racist Town" (Harrison, AR) (Original Post) stonecutter357 12 hrs ago OP

I used to drive from Fayetteville to a trucking company client in Harrison every week. sinkingfeeling 12 hrs ago #1

We went through Harrison for the first time about 30 years ago . . . hatrack 12 hrs ago #2

I lived in the Branson, MO area for a few years some 30-40 years ago...not far from Harrison... wcmagumba 12 hrs ago #3

If they turned the hats over, they could stuff them full of garbage . . . . hatrack 11 hrs ago #4

sinkingfeeling

(57,345 posts)

1. I used to drive from Fayetteville to a trucking company client in Harrison every week.

Reply to stonecutter357 (Original post)

Sun Jan 18, 2026, 09:55 PM

12 hrs ago

hatrack

(64,339 posts)

2. We went through Harrison for the first time about 30 years ago . . .

Reply to stonecutter357 (Original post)

Sun Jan 18, 2026, 10:03 PM

12 hrs ago

On the way in from the north, there was one of those blue "Adopt-A-Highway" signs for volunteer litter control. It caught our eye because it said "The next 3 miles adopted by the Knights Of The Ku Klux Klan".

Uh . . . .OK . . .

wcmagumba

(5,713 posts)

3. I lived in the Branson, MO area for a few years some 30-40 years ago...not far from Harrison...

Reply to stonecutter357 (Original post)

Sun Jan 18, 2026, 10:21 PM

12 hrs ago

I did go to Harrison a few times because there was a decent music shop there that I liked. I remember the KKK signs on picking up litter. I always wondered if they wore the white sheets while they picked trash...hmmm..

hatrack

(64,339 posts)

4. If they turned the hats over, they could stuff them full of garbage . . . .

Reply to wcmagumba (Reply #3)

Sun Jan 18, 2026, 11:16 PM

11 hrs ago

And then they could put them on their heads, and stuff them full of garbage again.

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