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n. - A member of a secret society of white Southerners in the United States that was formed in the 19th century to resist the emancipation of slaves;

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  • Even the Kluxer was a good guy: He showed me his pistols. "
  • Edwin W. Edwards, the spectacularly corrupt Cajun dauphin who ran against erstwhile Ku-Kluxer David Duke.
  • A test would eliminate a great portion of the rightwingnut fringe, the religious right taliban, the John Birchers, and the Ku Kluxer red staters.
  • I spent 59 years of my life living in the Kluxer swamps of South Alabama, the mean Black Panther streets of Central Oakland, the deteriorating, crime ridden streets of...
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