"We had no idea that we'd both be here on the same day," an unidentified Klansman wearing a white hood told an all-white crowd of about 500 people.

Seattle had an integrated team, and played in front of an all-white crowd of 18,803.

Mr. Keyes, who is black, asked the virtually all-white crowd in Greenville.

I, too, have often wished I were darker so that no one, thinking he was in an all-white crowd, would make racist comments in front of me.

The congregation's affection is evident, a striking thing given that Ms. Myles is a black woman preaching to a virtually all-white crowd.

He has since kept it up, warning his mostly all-white crowds that "Blackmon did a great job getting out her supporters."

When he talked about economic hardship, he spoke of those in the all-white crowd who cannot afford to rear children.

He is a student of the Chabad-Lubavitch philosophy, but he is also a white reggae singer with an all-white band, playing (on Monday night, anyway) to an almost all-white crowd.

At a club here named La Poussiere on a recent Saturday night, an all-white crowd danced to a rhythmic Cajun two-step.

On a recent Saturday night at La Poussiere, several patrons in the older, all-white crowd said they had little interest in seeing any changes in the racial mix.