HAMPTON BAYS, N.Y. — All along the bucolic back roads of this blue-collar gateway to the more opulent Hamptons, residents agree: There is nothing sophisticated about the Ku Klux Klan’s continuing drive to recruit new members.

The pamphlets the group has distributed seem to have been made in somebody’s basement, printed on threadbare paper with a printer in need of ink. They are stuffed into plastic sandwich bags, along with a few Jolly Rancher candies serving as weights, and tossed onto driveways in the dead of night.

Among the recipients have been Latino immigrants — the very target of the Klan’s campaign.

“They didn’t have enough forethought to think about where they should really put it, and where they shouldn’t,” said Karen Fritsch, 56, whose husband discovered a packet from the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan around the same day their neighbors, Colombian immigrants, got one. “If you’re an organized group that has an intention, why would you just throw it anywhere?”

The leafleting, from late July to late this month, has been limited to two or three streets and though several residents found pamphlets, only four complained to the authorities.