The kkk in the early 20th century had over 4 million members throughout the USA. That was about 4% of the entire USA population. It was popular in democrat strongholds in both the north and the south.
Klansmen included prominent members of society and although clandestine, they were able to get many sympathetic politicians elected. They were quite accepted at the time. There were over 300 active klansmen at the 1924 Democratic National Convention ( The Ku Klux Klan In American Politics , Arnold Rice).
These days kkk numbers in the USA are down to 3,000 and they tend to be poor and uneducated.
I find the cartoon depiction above to be quite accurate.
The KKK was also never accepted universally by the media, general public and politicians, and I'm pretty sure there numbers were much smaller.
The kkk in the early 20th century had over 4 million members throughout the USA. That was about 4% of the entire USA population. It was popular in democrat strongholds in both the north and the south.
Klansmen included prominent members of society and although clandestine, they were able to get many sympathetic politicians elected. They were quite accepted at the time. There were over 300 active klansmen at the 1924 Democratic National Convention ( The Ku Klux Klan In American Politics , Arnold Rice).
These days kkk numbers in the USA are down to 3,000 and they tend to be poor and uneducated.
I find the cartoon depiction above to be quite accurate.
Other: https://www.history.com/topics/reconstruction/ku-klux-klan
Hey man, thanks for the info!
The real reason the left wants us to forget our history!
Dude, you need to read up on your history.
They were very very popular amongst Democrats
You're right, another poster or some info up and I read up on it past night.
Wrong.
4 Democratic Speakers of the House were KKK members, and Pelosi just took their pictures down as part of her virtue signaling efforts.
Shouldn't the BLM person be white too? It is mostly white commies doing it after all.
Welp, I guess it’s one way to unite people. Some people.
"Corporate wants you to find the difference between these two pictures"
"They're the same"