Who called the NAACP Teresa? Who called the FBI to report hate crimes? Who has threatened to sue? People who were not born and raised here but who migrated here! By any other definition they are "outside forces" and they are trying to tell people with whom they disagree what something means to them because of what real people (like the KKK) who commit real hate crimes have done with it.
That absolutely is not who the people in Walton County, that are fighting to keep and preserve their heritage are about and the continued attacks on them by radicals who disagree with them are just as hateful, divisive and racist as those they accuse.
We are not outside forces. We are residents who love our community, pay taxes, work and contribute as much as anyone. There are many local people and business owners not happy about some of the language used to describe them at the meeting. More divisiveness.
I don't like the tactics you mention either. Absolutely unnecessary. There are tactics on both sides that are questionable, imo. This is part of the divisiveness. It's unfortunate but part of it.