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Slow Burn

S4 Ep. 4: A Silent Army

Slow Burn

Slate Podcasts

News, Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Politics

4.625.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

David Duke wasn’t content being a state representative. He wanted to go national, and in 1990 he expanded his base of white voters to try to attain that goal. In Episode 4 of Slow Burn: How David Duke made himself a political sensation—and the message that his supporters sent when they cast their ballots. Season 4 of Slow Burn is produced by Josh Levin and Christopher Johnson. Mixing by Paul Mounsey. Slow Burn’s production assistant is Madeline Ducharme and Sophie Summergrad is the podcast’s assistant producer. The last two episodes of this season are available only to Slate Plus subscribers. You can sign up by going to slate.com/slowburn. It’s only $15 for your first three months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This podcast contains language that some listeners may find offensive. First of all, just

1:09.3

so that I can inform the listeners where we are. Would you tell us where exactly we are?

1:15.6

That's Plader Robinson. It was the summer of 1990 and he was working on a public radio

1:21.3

story about David Duke's campaign for the United States Senate.

1:24.7

Well, you know you're at the hilltop. And what do you call his head of island?

1:29.7

And whereabouts are we headed? We're headed to a place you can't get to by land. It's

1:34.9

called the Blind River Bar. The Blind River Bar was in Livingston,

1:40.0

Parish, Louisiana in Swampland about 40 miles outside Ban Rouge. On this morning, 300

1:47.3

people were heading there to eat and drink and cheer on David Duke.

1:52.8

Plader Robinson caught a ride to the bar on a motorized houseboat full of Duke supporters.

1:59.0

Duke had staged a different kind of rally in Livingston, Parish in 1975. Back then,

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