They came to demonstrate white supremacy but were drowned out by far superior numbers of a diverse group that opposed them.

Nine members of a KKK-affiliated group drew a roughly equal number of supporters to a rally Saturday in Dayton, Ohio. The racists, from Madison, Ind., covered their faces with bandannas as they carried a US flag, a Confederate flag and a KKK flag across the city’s Courthouse Square.

Separated by concrete barricades, fences and hundreds of cops from across the state, nearly 1,000 counter-protesters drowned out the Klansmen’s speeches by banging on drums, playing tubas and singing “Amazing Grace” with a church group from Greenville, Ohio.

With Wire services