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TexasTowelie

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Wed Aug 30, 2017, 04:52 AM Aug 2017

Dark rituals? Orgies? See the reality of a hippie commune deep in Missouri's Bible Belt

Tecumseh, Mo. -- Nestled amid several dozen hilly acres in Ozark County, in what would later become Trump’s America, 16 people once banded together to help spread socialism.

Decades later, the East Wind community is the largest it’s ever been, with 73 members sharing more than 1,000 acres.

But despite a long history in this county on the Arkansas border, where Trump received 80 percent of the vote, East Winders are outsiders.

The Ozark locals regard them with a sense of suspicion and sanctimony.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article169607787.html

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