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Shouts of 'Go home, Spencer' greet white nationalist at Florida speech

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A public appearance by white nationalist Richard Spencer began tensely, but mostly peacefully, at the University of Florida on Thursday as police, protesters and white nationalists gathered for a planned speech that prompted Florida's governor to declare a state of emergency.

But inside the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, on an isolated corner of the campus, students with tickets booed heavily and chanted a profane phrase against Spencer as he came onstage.

"We represent a new white America!" said

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