Its a knox joke. used to be a rough town where only the brave ventured in to still kind of is.
I know that when I worked in Porter County and the company had an office in Starke County, they would not allow their black female IT person to travel here to work on the computers. They were worried about her safety. That was several years after the grand poo bah of the Klan was shot and killed by his wife in their kitchen. I'll never forget when we moved here and I asked the school why they didn't hand out info to the kids about scouting and 4-H and such. I was told that if they distributed those flyers to the students that they also had to distribute info for the Klan as they had been asked to do so. Apparently, they cannot discriminate...if they distribute for one group, they cannot refuse to distribute info for others. It was eye opening moving here...to say the least.