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The majority of Southern commentators argue that the motive of the lynchers is a laudable yearning to "protect Southern womanhood," despite the plain fact that only a very small proportion of the blackamoors hanged and burned are even so much as accused of molesting Southern womanhood.

The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind George Jean Nathan 1920

Some of these right-wingers probably descended from a long line of lynchers.

Town hall meeting on health care turns ugly 2009

Reinforcing their Dixie base of lynchers and hate radio zombie is not gonna be good for the GOP.

Matthew Yglesias » Zero 2009

And notice that he turns the boo into cheers: plenty of people in his crowd wanted him to do the right thing, and he gave them a chance to be louder than the would-be lynchers in the crowd.

McCain Says No Need To Fear Obama, Calls On Supporters To Be "Respectful" 2009

You would have thought he was Abe Lincoln by way of Thomas Jefferson with a dollop of Albert Schweitzer by the time Reid et. al., eating crow rather than become fellow lynchers, stopped enthusing about him.

Michael Jones: Hanging Tough 2009

It may remind some one that instead of taking over a protectorate of Armenia we might better take over a protectorate of the State of Georgia, which yearly leads the proud list of lynchers.

Comics: Gluyas Williams – The Bleat. 2009

Now, there are movies like Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? that show KKK racist lynchers as the beasts that they are.

Politicking 2008

Mooshum relates that Cuthbert Peace, when dragged by the lynchers behind a horse, "looked like a big caterpillar coated with gray dust."

Blood Relations Messud, Claire 2008

It's the smart tactic and potentially shows how Obama will govern even the ungovernable mob being stoked by the Republican ticket and the media itself: by reeling out enough rope for the lynchers to hang themselves.

Steven Weber: Mavericks, Mobs and the Cameras That Love Them 2008

The history is the opposite: the white majority has the history of being the lynchers.

Balkinization 2007