The revived Klan of the early 20th century had its heyday in the early 1920s, then rapidly faded away in most areas...Byrd was born in 1917 so he was only 7 or 8 when the Klan began to decline, and must have joined later. The 20th-century Klan was not only anti-black...it was also anti-Catholic, anti-foreigner, and anti-Semitic (why settle for one bigotry when it's just as easy to adopt them all?). It would be interesting to find out which of those hatreds particularly drew Byrd into the KKK.
Nope, WV is getting sick of him. Shelly Moore Capito is 10 points behind and she has yet to annouce anything.