Strong resistance from counterprotesters forced white nationalists and white supremacists to cancel a second planned rally in the large college town of Murfreesboro, Tenn., on Saturday, Oct. 28. 

Following the violent unrest in Charlottesville, Va., white nationalist groups have held several rallies around the country in an attempt to build off of the press and momentum of August's rally. But many of those rallies such as one in Boston was met with overwhelming numbers of counterprotesters. 

Saturday was no different. At the first rally held in Shelbyville, Tenn., The Washington Post estimated that 100 white nationalists showed up with "White lives matter" signs while some chanted "blood and soil." That 100 was met with 200 counterprotesters who drowned out their chants with chants of "Black lives matter."

Although they were outnumbered, some couldn't believe their organization. 

“It’s kinda terrifying how organized they are. Because it’s so many different groups,” local activist Mike Cannon, 29, told HuffPost. “It’s more evidence after Charlottesville that the alt-right is a movement we need to pay attention to.”

Organizers included a coalition of white nationalist groups such as the National Socialist Movement, the Traditionalist Worker Party, Vanguard America and Anti-Communist Action. 

Rallygoers originally intended to speak and then depart for Murfreesboro, but that didn't happen. Around 8 a.m. Saturday, counterprotesters started gathering in the town and waited nearly two hours for white nationalists to appear.

The white nationalists expected to descend on the college town did not show up. According to The Huffington Post,  that afternoon, organizer Brad Griffin ― who goes by Hunter Wallace and is a leader in the white nationalist group League of the South ― canceled the rally scheduled for Murfreesboro. He said on Twitter that his fellow white supremacists have “nothing to gain.” 

And in a tweet, he claimed the rally was a "lawsuit trap."

As it became apparent white nationalists would not show, many counterprotesters celebrated in the street.  

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