Panhandle culture questions (Coeur d'Alene, Sandpoint: home, live, moving to)

[Grin]

In the past the panhandle has gotten press about fundamentalist religious groups and white supremacist groups like the Aryan Nation. Has this climate changed? My wife and I are looking seriously at moving to the Sandpoint area and it's difficult to really get a feel for tolerance and acceptance in short visits. We like the feel of the area a great deal and I'd like to know if religious fundamentalists or white supremacist groups are in evidence and how prevalent they are in the local culture.

Thanks to all who reply,

Grin

[wurd4wurd]

The Founder of the Aryan Nations (Richard Butler) died at the age of 86 in September of 2004. In 2001, Butler's 20-acre compound (in the hills east of Coeur d'Alene) was auctioned off to satisfy a $6.3 million verdict against him and his organization in connection with an assault on a woman and her son by three Aryan Nations security guards.
If there are any followers (I am not aware of any) of the Aryan Nations left in this area, they keep a low profile. They are not openly embraced, just like the KKK aren't embraced by the majority of good folks in our southern states.

[huntman58]

I would believe some of those mind set are still there. Also there is or was a reason to get that title and just because a main person is removed how ever dose not mean all of like thinking left also .most stay quite and under the radar and not out in the open as a very few in that line of thinking . But to say the whole area is like that is like saying all calif people are rich home owning yuppies. I do know that one races lives in that area be it Idaho or Washington I do not know and that is Mark Ferman of the OJ trial fame who tampered with evidence in that case