[RussP]

“Distorting history for the sake of promoting the conservative cause is no better than the PC rewriting of history performed by liberals in academia or the entertainment business.”

In your estimation, what percentage of support for the KKK came from Democrats and what percentage came from Republicans? Given what I know, I suspect the Democratic support dwarfed the Republican support. I haven’t studied the matter in any detail, however, and I could be wrong.

[Wallace T.]

There is no issue relative to hostility of the first Ku Klux Klan of the late 1860s and early 1870s towards the Republican Party, as it was seen as the party of the freedmen, white Southern Unionists, and Northerners who came to the South during the Reconstruction era. The second Klan that was founded in 1915 and reached its peak of popularity in the early 1920s was at least as strong in Republican leaning Northern and Western states as it was in the South. Many Northern Republican politicians were pro-Klan, including state officials in Oregon, Indiana, and Colorado and local officials in many other states. By the time the third Klan developed after World War II in reaction to the civil rights movement, few if any politicians endorsed it.