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White Extremists Lash Out Over Election of First Black President

A 2005 photo of Cynthia Lynch, 43, who was shot and killed Nov. 9, 2008, in St. Tammany Parish, La., after attempting to back out of a Ku Klux Klan initiation ceremony. (Associated Press)

Bogalusa, Louisiana - Barely three weeks since America elected its first black president, noose hangings, racist graffiti and death threats have struck dozens of towns across the country.

More than 200 such incidents -- including cross burnings, assassination betting pools and effigies of President-elect Barack Obama -- have been reported, according to law enforcement authorities and the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups.

Racist websites have been boasting that their servers have been crashing because of an exponential increase in traffic.