Black mayoral candidate says Confederate flags were placed in his yard

This is in Lubbock, named for Confederate bushwhacker and noted slavery enthusiast Thomas Saltus Lubbock.

Lubbock was a strong secessionist, characterized as a “very worthy and zealous” Knight of the Golden Circle.

The Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC) “was” a secret society in the mid-19th-century United States. The original objective of the KGC was to annex a “golden circle” of territories in Mexico, Central America, Confederate States of America, and the Caribbean as slave states, to be led by Maximilian I of Mexico.

As abolitionism in the United States increased after the Dred Scott Decision of 1857, the members proposed a separate confederation of slave states, with U.S. states south of the Mason-Dixon line to secede and to align with other slave states to be formed from the “golden circle”. In either case, the goal was to increase the power of the Southern slave-holding upper class to such a degree that it could never be dislodged.

The original Ku Klux Klan took some of its symbolism and nomenclature, as well as more than a few members, from the KGC. There are a great many legends and conspiracy theories about the organization, mostly having to do with buried treasure, but including claims that the organization continued to exist in secret, and even does so to this day.