In my mind, since torch-bearing robed klansmen are a thing of the past, I didn't associate a tiki torch with the Klan. The torches of the past were "a portable light produced by the flame of a stick of resinous wood or of a flammable material wound about the end of a stick of wood" :
and not the caged/controlled flammable material slowly burning at the end of a pole (a tiki torch):
