based on his own agenda of promoting racial segregation.
             Few professed white supremacists have evoked as much controversy as
             David Duke. He is, after all, very different from the standard
             stereotypical white supremacist -- an uneducated hermit who lives away from
             society. In contrast, Duke is an educated man, with a degree in History
             from Louisiana State University. He studied in Austria's prestigious
             Goethe institute and has lectured in institutions like Harvard, Oxford and
             Cambridge Universities. Duke has also worked with the US State Department
             in the 1970s, as an instructor to the Laotian military officers who were
             fighting communism in Southeast Asia.
             Duke is arguably best known for his membership with the Knights of the
             Ku Klux Klan. In 1974, Duke served as this organization's National
             Director. As the organization's leader, Duke had difficulty
             differentiating his new Klan organization, which he argued was an advocacy
             group for white people, with the more well-known Klan organizations which
             committed hate crimes against minorities. To differentiate his own views
             from the stereotypical ignorant "Klan," Duke left the organization in 1978.
             He then formed the National Association for the Advancement of White Pride
             Though the organization was new, Duke still continued to advocate the
             rightness of his beliefs regarding a Divinely-ordained racial segregation
             The Klan's strength and its ideas regarding race are rooted in its
             view that culture and religion are inextricably linked. After all, the KKK
             was originally formed to preserve the dominance of American culture, amid
             the influx of non-Anglo immigrants at the beginning of the 20th century.
             For analysts like William D. Jenkins, the formation of the Klan was thus a
             "consequence of cultural conflict that resulted from the overly rapid
             mixing of divergent cultures" (Jenkins, ix).
             For many working-...