The national leader of the Ku Klux Klan plans to move operations of the white supremacist group to an undisclosed town in North Carolina where he intends to run for mayor, a published report said Saturday.
Imperial Wizard James W. Farrands, 55, the head of the KKK since 1986, told the New Haven Register he was planning to move his family and Klan operations to the South as soon as he could sell the hilltop home where he has lived for 18 years."I could run the Klan from anywhere, from Maine if I wanted to," said Farrands, the first national KKK leader elected from north of the Mason-Dixon line in the Klan's 120-year history.
Farrands, who was elected Connecticut leader of the Invisible Empire of the Knights of the Klan in 1981, would not comment Saturday on his plans, saying only: "That's none of your business."
The Klan leader told the Register he was moving South because people there are "more genteel, more cultured."