One morning seven years ago, an ugly sight greeted residents of my small Alabama town, which journalists often call one of the prettiest in the South.
During the night, the Ku Klux Klan had tossed hundreds — perhaps thousands — of anti-transgender flyers into our driveways and onto our well-tended lawns.
Similar handbills turned up in towns all along our part of the Gulf Coast, and a leader of the Loyal White Knights chapter of the KKK in North Carolina said they came from his members in Alabama and Mississippi.