`  I assume the above is from Dderitter (please sign your posts by adding 4 tildas at the end).  I hear your perspective on NPOV.  In choosing the word partnership I was paraphrasing scholar Kristen Kandt's peer reviewed article where she use the language ``public alliance.``  Please see the quote in the reference list.  I'm happy to change the language from partnership to alliance.  In reviewing all of the schoolars (Blee, Neal, Stanley, Kandt) that I can find who have published in peer reviewed journals about White's relationship with the Klan, their articles are consistant with the term partnership.  I'd have to go back and reivew them to find the specific language, but I bet if I did I'd find the word partnership used in some.  But I'd rather not take the time to do that work at the moment, so I'm happy to use the word alliance since I can and have suppoted that word.  I'm happy to send you a copy of the full Kandt article if you send me an email address.  I have my own personal perspective (which is actually somewhat compassionate) on why White was so supportive of the Klan and many of their intollerant ideologies, which some day I suppose I should publish, but I recognize Wikipedia is not the place for that.    `