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Robert Byrd
Senator Robert Byrd was a Kleagle, a Klan recruiter, in his 20s and 30s.
.Byrd later said joining the Klan was his "greatest mistake." The NAACP gave him a 100% rating on their issues during the 108th Congress.[4] However, in a 2001 incident Byrd repeatedly used the phrase "white *******" on a national television broadcast.[5]
Hugo Black
Late in life Black told an interviewer:
at that time, I was joining every organization in sight!...In my part of Alabama, the Klan was not engaged in unlawful activities....The general feeling in the community was that if responsible citizens didn't join the Klan it would soon become dominated by the less responsible members.[6]
News of his membership was a secret until shortly after he was confirmed for the United States Supreme Court. Black later said that joining the Klan was a mistake, but he went on to say "I would have joined any group if it helped get me votes."[7][8]
Theodore G. Bilbo
Bibb Graves
....Graves like Hugo Black, were politicians who used the strength of the Klan to further their electoral prospects.[14]
Clifford Walker
Governor Clifford Walker.
Clifford Walker, a Democrat and the 64th Governor of Georgia, was revealed to be a Klan member by the press in 1924.
George Gordon
George Gordon, a Democrat and Congressman for Tennessee's 10th congressional districtbecame one of the Klan's first members. In 1867, Gordon became the Klan's first Grand Dragon for the Realm of Tennessee, and wrote its "Precept," a book describing its organization, purpose, and principles.
Cut-n-pasted Composition fallacy.
Kinda makes it hard to explain Edward Jackson -- Governor of Indiana .... Republican. Klan.
KInda akes it hard to explain Rice Means -- Senator from Colorado ... Republican. Klan.
Kinda makes it hard to explain Clarence Morley, Governor of Colorado ... Republican. Klan.
Kinda makes it hard to explain George Luis Baker, Mayor of Portland Oregon... Republican. Klan.
Kinda makes it hard to essplain how a slew of the Anaheim city council got elected... all Republicans, all Klan.
Kinda makes it hard to explain all those Indiana Republicans taken down with D.C. Stephenson in my video link.
Also makes it hard to explain Jack Walton, Governor of Oklahoma (Democrat) who tried to drive the Klan out of that state in the wake of the Tulsa Race Riots and was himself removed from office after a push from the Klan.
Also makes it hard to explain how Oscar Underwood, Senator from Alabama that was the leading voice denouncing the Klan, got pushback from the Klan to deny him a spot as a Presidential candidate .... at the 1924 Democratic convention.
Kinda makes it hard to explain why the first POTUS to prosecute the revived Klan was Lyndon Johnson ... Democrat.
Care to essplain why a "wing of the Democratic party" would be working to elect Republicans over its own candidates? Care to tell the class why a party with such a "wing" would be actively prosecuting that "wing"?
Once again for you short-bus kids at the Academy of Denialism committed to smokescreening history --- the Klan was never an organization formed for politics. When it finally did dabble in politics it used the Democrats you listed in the South, the Republicans I list here --- whatever would suit the purpose of the time. Politics was secondary -- the primary thrust was as a social police force, keeping blacks, Liberals, communists, unionists, Catholics, Jews, gays, immigrants and "loose" women "in their place". It was a Christian-based Sharia Law force.
And while you're at it, why don't you tell the class which political party is likely to be associated with blacks, Jews, immigrants, Catholics, unions and gays? You can kind of figure it out by reading the general threads in this Politics section. Then explain to us why a political party would be persecuting its own constituency.
This is the hole you Revisionistas always dig yourselves.
Good luck getting out of it.
Never claimed that "there aren't any republican klan members", but the Klan was indeed the terrorist wing of the Democrat party.
True story.