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Racist incidents signal ‘potential resurgence’ of KKK in York County, state says

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FILE – James Lewis, right, of Wrightsville, joins other members of the Ku Klux Klan is saluting during a 2006 rally in Gettysburg. (Jason Plotkin/York Daily Record)

York County is seeing a “potential resurgence” of the Ku Klux Klan, a racist hate group with deep ties in central Pennsylvania, according to Chad Dion Lassiter, executive director of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission.

He reached that conclusion Tuesday evening after learning a black couple in Dover Township, York County, received

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