>>>Most Southerners were not members of the Klan, but they didn’t go after the Klan, because they felt that despite a few excesses, they generally held the same views.<<<
Do you make just this crazy stuff up, or were you taught it in ACLU-controlled public schools?
Is it your position that Southerners had Jim Crow laws forced on them?
Perhaps you can cite for me the number of Klansmen brought to justice by local authorities before 1960?
Maybe you think that the majority of white southerners were forced to use "white only" facilities?
Open racism and not so hidden lynchings happened because the majority of southern whites were OK with it. Men listed the Klan on their resume and paraded down main street in their relalia because the majority of people were OK with it.
I grew up in a state that was split during the Civil War, but which did not have Jim Crow. I've lived in the South now for 17 years where there was Jim Crow. I see very little racism by whites, but history is what it is.