I'm a 36 year old Georgia native, and except for the occasional rally, which has become fairly rare in the last 10 years, the KKK is virtually non-existant here.
Matter of fact, IIRC the last time I've even heard about the klan was 10 years ago when Hosea Williams did his"Freedom March" thing in what was then very majority white Forsyth county.
On the other hand, "The House of Prayer" was recently involved in a child abuse case brought by the state because the Pastor would spank children during sermons, in front of the congregation.
Michael, didn't you say your wife worked on the house of prayer case?
Yep. I can't say a lot about it for obvious reasons, but suffice it to say that the preacher (Rev. Arthur Allen) was in the wrong.
The spankings of the children were more akin to beatings. A parishoner would hold each of the child's four limbs, suspending them in air as a fifth person, usually someone else chosen by Allen, commenced to beating the child.
Allen and two of the parents were convicted on child cruelty charges and sentenced to probation. Among the terms were community service (which Allen decided not to go to) and the promise not to administer any more spankings in church (which Allen flat-foot refused to agree to, and continued to do in church).
Allen is presently serving his sentence (I think it's 2 years) in the Fulton County Jail. He was caught about a month ago after fleeing from the cops for a number of months.
The church obviously goes on, but without the good reverend.