[SteveMcKing]

Early 40s?

He said he did it to "fight Communism", a cause not possible until 1946 at the earliest.

[freebilly]

Byrd went on the radio to acknowledge that he belonged to the Klan from "mid-1942 to early 1943," according to newspaper accounts. He explained that he had joined "because it offered excitement and because it was strongly opposed to communism."

As opposed to the political party he belongs too which is strongly opposed to anti-communism....

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[AzaleaCity5691]

Actually, anti-Communism, as a political movement began in the early 1920s, spurred on by Wilson's AG, Mitchell Palmer.

Of course it didn't take on real significance until the Cold War, but there were several "Red Scares" in between 1917 and 1946

The reason the Nazi government was initially not objected to by anybody is that everyone thought Hitler was going to be a useful bulwark to Stalin.

Also of note, in the Presidential Election of 1928, the election results in Alachua County, Florida are kind of telling.

Smith (Democrat)- 35%
Thomas (Socialist)- 32%
Foster (Communist)- 30%
Smith (Republican)- 3%

The Communist candidate also recieved (somehow) 5% of the vote in adjoining Gilchrist County

The fear of Communism existed in the 20s, and for very good reason.

[hsalaw]

In the early 1940s, the communists were our allies - remember Russia in WWII? How can he claim his KKK buddies were "fighting communism" during that time? Also, Rush Limbaugh played Sheets' 1968 (?) diatribe against Martin Luther King on Friday - Sheets claimed MLK was a troublemaker who stirred things up and then ran and hid and let his supporters take the heat. Sheets' autobiography is going to be another doorstop just like "My Lie."