White Nationalist Richard Spencer Gets His Money From Louisiana Cotton Fields—and the US Government

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/03/richard-spencer-cotton-farms-louisiana-subsidies


The family's farm holdings are a legacy of its ties to the Jim Crow South.

The region that is home to the Spencers' farms has a history of slavery and racism. Through the civil rights era, the Ku Klux Klan targeted black residents there with lynchings, cross burnings, and other violence. In Tensas Parish, where the Spencers own 3,000 acres of farmland, blacks didn't win the right to vote until 1964.

Most of the millions paid to the Spencers has been in commodity subsidy payments for growing cotton.