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MAJ-7 (UNREST HALF) MIXED · STATE FRAME DUG, TOWN TEXTURE NAMED AS GAP
The unrest checklist runs three tests — the 1920s Klan, labor trouble, and the town in 2020 — and the record answers them at three different strengths. The Klan test prints at state strength, because at town strength there is nothing to print: Indiana in the 1920s was the second Klan's center of power — D. C. Stephenson's realm counted its members in the hundreds of thousands, put a governor in office, and collapsed after his 1925 murder conviction shrank the Indiana Klan from some 350,000 to about 15,000 within a year — and St. Joseph County sat inside that Indiana. But no Walkerton klavern, rally, cross-burning, or membership roll appears in any source this section reached, and the build does not print a county's weather as a town's event: the town-level Klan record stands as a named gap, with the Independent's 1921–1926 runs and Sherland's compilation as its settlers. (The famous county confrontation of the era, the 1924 clash at Notre Dame, is South Bend's build's fact, not this town's, and is not imported.) The labor test is carried in the set-piece above: no dispute found. The May 2020 test likewise returns no Walkerton-specific event in the record reached — no march, meeting, or incident in the town stands in the sources online — and prints as the same honest negative: the gap's settler is the Independent-News' 2020 run. An unrest set whose findings are one state frame and two documented silences is printed at exactly that size.
Principal sources: the standard Indiana Klan record (Lutholtz, Grand Dragon, 1991; Egan, A Fever in the Heartland, 2023 — the state frame and the membership collapse); the negative town-level run of this section.