68Ibid.
69Louis Beam, Leaderless Resistance, Inter-Klan Newslet-
ter & Survival Alert, undated, circa May 1983, pages not
numbered, on file at PRA.
70Dobratz interview.
71Ibid. See also, Stephanie Shanks-Meile, The Changing
Faces of the White Power Movement and the Anti-
Racist Resistance, in Betty A. Dobratz, Lisa K. Walder,
and Timothy Buzzell, eds., The Politics of Social Inequal-
ity, vol. 9 (2001), pp. 191-195.
72John C. Green, James L. Guth, and Kevin Hill, Faith
and Election: The Christian Right in Congressional
Campaigns 19781988, The Journal of Politics, vol. 55,
no. 1 (February 1993), pp. 8091; Christian Smith, with
Sally Gallagher, Michael Emerson, Paul Kennedy, and
David Sikkink, American Evangelicalism: Embattled and
Thriving (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998),
pp. 75-84; Richard Morin and Scott Wilson, Men
Were Driven to Confess Their Sins: In Survey, Atten-
dees Say They Also Are Concerned About Women, Pol-
itics Washington Post, October 5, 1997, p. A1.
73Val Burris, Small Business, Status Politics, and the
Social Base of New Christian Right Activism, Critical
Sociology, vol. 27, no.1 (2001), pp. 29-55.
74Nella Van Dyke and Sarah A. Soule, The Mobilizing
Effect of Social Strain: Explaining the Variation in Lev-
els of Patriot and Militia Organizing, (Annual Meeting
of the ASA: Washington, DC, 2000).
75Deborah Kaplan, Republic of Rage: A Look Inside the
Patriot Movement, (Annual Meeting of the ASA, San
Francisco, 1998) p. 33.
76Christopher Mele, The Militias Stand Up, Sunday
Record, Middletown, NY, February 12, 1995.
77HansGeorg Betz, Radical Rightwing Populism in West-
ern Europe (New York: St. Martins Press, 1994), p. 106.
78Ibid., pp. 106-108, 174.
79Portrait of an Anxious Public, article in special report
on The New Populism, Business Week, March 13,
1995, p. 80.
80Susan J. Tolchin, The Angry American: How Voter Rage is
Changing the Nation (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1996).
81Barbara Ehrenreich, Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the
Middle Class (New York: Harper Perennial, 1989), pp.
144-195.
82Catherine McNicol Stock, Rural Radicals: Righteous Rage
in the American Grain (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
Press, 1996), p. ix.
83Ibid., p. 148.
84Michael Kazin, The Populist Persuasion: An American His-
tory (New York: Basic Books, 1995), p. 5.
85Kevin Phillips, The Politics of Frustration, The New
York Times Magazine, April 12, 1992, pp. 3842, quote
is from p. 41. See also, Kevin Phillips, Boiling Point: Repub-
licans, Democrats, and the Decline of Middle-Class Pros-
perity (New York: Random House, 1993); Kevin Phillips,
Arrogant Capital: Washington, Wall Street, and the Frus-
tration of American Politics (Boston: Little & Brown, 1994).
86Peter Fritzsche, Rehearsals for Fascism: Populism and
Political Mobilization in Weimar Germany (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1990); Peter Fritzsche, Germans
into Nazis (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
1998).
87Susan Faludi, Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man
(New York: William Morrow, 1999); Didi Herman, The
Antigay Agenda: Orthodox Vision and the Christian Right
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997); Linda Kintz,
Between Jesus and the Market: The Emotions that Matter
in Right-Wing America (Durham, NC: Duke University
Press, 1997); Lee Quinby, Coercive Purity: The Dan-
gerous Promise of Apocalyptic Masculinity, in Charles
B. Strozier and Michael Flynn, eds., The Year 2000: Essays
on the End (New York: New York University Press, 1997),
pp.154-165; Ferber, White Man Falling.
88Durham, The Christian Right, pp. 24-42.
89Daniel Junas, The Rise of Citizen Militias: Angry White
Guys with Guns, CovertAction Quarterly (Spring 1995),
online at http://www.publiceye.org/rightist/dj_mili.html.
90Ted Arrington, quoted in Susan Ladd and Stan Swofford,
Patriot Aims/The Militias, News & Record, Greensboro,
NC, June 25-27, 1995, online edition.
91Ibid.
92Michael Kimmel and Abby Ferber, White Men Are This
Nation: Right Wing Militias and the Restoration of
Rural American Masculinity, Rural Sociology, vol. 65, no.
4 (2000), pp. 582-604, quoted from conference paper.
93Ibid.
94Barbara Ehrenreich, Blood Rites: Origins and History of
the Passions of War (New York: Henry Holt, 1997).
95James William Gibson, Warrior Dreams: Paramilitary Cul-
ture in Post-Viet Nam America (New York: Hill and
Wang, 1994),
96James William Gibson, The Blast that Finished Off
Militia Culture, Los Angeles Times, May 13, 2001,
online edition.
97Ibid.
98H. Bruce Franklin, M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America
(Brooklyn, NY: Lawrence Hill Books, 1992).
99Gibson, Warrior Dreams, pp. 9-10, 161-165, 298-309;
Philip Lamy, Millennium Rage: Survivalists, White
Supremacists, and the Doomsday Prophecy (New York:
Plenum, 1996), pp. 85-89.
100Stern, A Force Upon the Plain, pp. 137-162; James
William Gibson, Is the Apocalypse Coming?
Paramilitary Culture after the Cold War, in Strozier and
Flynn, eds., The Year 2000, pp. 180-189; Lamy,
Millennium Rage, pp. 153-191; Berlet and Lyons,
Right-Wing Populism, pp. 287-304.
101Pitcavage interview.
102Akins, God, Guns, and Guts, p. 161
103Chip Berlet, Dances with Devils: How Apocalyptic and
Millennialist Themes Influence Right Wing Scape-
goating and Conspiracism, The Public Eye, vol. 12, nos.
2 & 3 (Fall 1998); Susan DeCamp, Locking the Doors
to the Kingdom: an Examination of Religion in Extrem-
ist Organizing and Public Policy, in Eric Ward, ed.,
American Armageddon: Religion, Revolution, and the
Right (Seattle: Northwest Coalition Against Malicious
Harassment, Peanut Butter Publishing, 1998); Lamy,
Millennium Rage; Charles B. Strozier, Apocalyptic Vio-
lence and the Politics of Waco, in Strozier and Flynn,
eds., The Year 2000, pp. 97-111; Michael Barkun,
Racist Apocalypse, pp. 190-205. For background on
apocalypticism, see Paul Boyer, When Time Shall Be No
More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture (Cam-
bridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 1992);
Stephen D. OLeary, Arguing the Apocalypse: A Theory
of Millennial Rhetoric (New York: Oxford University Press,
1994); Damian Thompson, The End of Time: Faith and
Fear in the Shadow of the Millennium (Hanover, NH: Uni-
versity Press of New England, 1998).
104Pitcavage interview.
105Lee Quinby, Anti-Apocalypse: Exercises in Genealogical
Criticism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
1994); Kimmel and Ferber, White Men Are This
Nation; Linda Kintz, Between Jesus and the Market,
p. 257.
106Barkun, Religion and the Racist Right, pp. 217-223.
107Michael Barkun, The Apocalyptic Other, (Annual
Conference, Center for Millennial Studies, Boston Uni-
versity, November 4, 1997, online). Barkun expanded
on this thesis in Conspiracy Theories as Stigmatized
Knowledge: The Basis for a New Age Racism? in Jef-
frey Kaplan and Tore Bjørgo, eds., Nation and Race: The
Developing Euro-American Racist Subculture (Boston:
Northeastern University Press, 1998), pp. 58-72.
108Pitcavage interview.
109Nicholas N. Kittrie, Rebels With a Cause: The Minds and
Morality of Political Offenders (Boulder, CO: Westview
Press, 2000); Nicholas N. Kittrie, The War Against
Authority: From the Crisis of Legitimacy to a New Social
Contract (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,
1995). Kittrie observes that not all participants in social
movements break laws or engage in violence, and that
in democratic societies, such distinctions are important.
110Stephanie L. Shanks-Meile and Betty A. Dobratz,
Linkages of Hatred: Hierarchies of Oppression and Vio-
lence among Contemporary White Supremacists,
(Unpublished paper, n.d., on file at PRA).
111The Liberty Lobby and its newspaper The Spotlight were
closed through legal action resulting from a civil lawsuit
filed by former affiliated organizations. The successor
newspaper is the American Free Press.
112Joe R. Feagin, Racist America: Roots, Current Realities,
and Future Reparation (New York: Routledge, 2001),
pp. 139-140.
113Green interview.
114Ibid.
115Ibid..
116Ibid.
117Ibid.
118Pitcavage interview.
119For a more extensive list of such groups see the resources
section of the PRA website http://www.publiceye.org
120Kazin, Populist Persuasion, p. 284.
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