A small town in North Dakota is facing white supremacists that want to transform the town into a community that matches their views, according to CNN.
Paul Craig Cobb wants to make the town of Leith, with a small population of only 24, into a white supremacist community that follows his views and the town is preparing for his supporters to arrive, flowing banners and celebrating white culture while not welcoming minorities.
Cobb wants to not only gain political control in Leith, but to spread his views to other communities and even other nations.
"I don't understand why all the different other people don't say 'whitey' is pretty darn nice and clever," Cobb told CNN. "There are many organizations in which whites have to support other cultures.
"Where is the organization of people from around the world that says let's keep these white people?" Cobb continued. "They're pretty darn good, all in all."
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Cobb is one of the most famous white supremacists in North America.
"He believes whites should be separate from other races," Heidi Beirich, of the Southern Poverty Law Center, told CNN. "He's also an anti-Semite, a raging anti-Semite.
"And he's a member of the creativity religion, which is a religion that literally worships the Aryan man instead of God," she continued.
Cobb chose Leith because it is beautiful and cheap. He purchased 12 plots of land and he wants white nationalist organizations to reside on his properties.
"It is very shocking, because I didn't ever know groups like this existed," Mayor Ryan Schock, who has lived in Leith his entire life, said.
"It saddens us, because of what they stand for," Miller Ferrie, a resident of the town, said.
The town's only black resident feels threatened.
However, Cobb hasn't yet done anything to officially break the law, so there isn't anything the police can do at this time. Town and county officials are considering extreme measures to prevent town being taken over by white supremacists, with the mayor even considering dissolving the city, though he hopes it doesn't come to that.
CNN coverage of Leith.
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