Hitler-Inspired Father Of North Idaho Hate Also Moved From CA

North Idaho has for decades been associated with a number of anti-government, pro-Aryan groups that have been thriving in the panhandle for over 50 years now. The individual that history identifies as the man who forever changed the region was a Colorado native raised and educated in California.

 His influence is still very much alive in the Gem State.

It's been close to four months since the Utah State women's basketball team left Coeur d'Alene in a hurry after allegedly becoming the target of racist threats from a passing automobile while dining out at a city restaurant. Persons of interest were interviewed and ultimately no one was found guilty of committing any crime.

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The team will travel to North Idaho again on December 15 for a game in Moscow, according to the Aggies website. Hopefully, this time around those who share ideologies rooted in "whites only" teachings will focus on the sport more than anything else. The Southern Poverty Law Center has identified a handful of these groups that still operate north of Challis, and the person credited with watering the white separatist seeds of northern Idaho was a man named Richard Butler.

Butler spoke openly of being inspired by former Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler, according to the SPLC. "I admired [Hitler] because it seemed like he was the only one who stood up," was a Los Angeles Times quote taken from Butler in 1999.

He established a large complex that housed and educated youths on antisemitism in the early seventies, according to the SPLC. Butler died in 2004 at the age 86. His influence is still very much alive in the Gem State.