Posted on 12/03/2010 4:39:40 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
Yeah, you're right. Half the Indiana state legislature, all of them Republicans, plus the governor, plus every other statewide office, plus all 13 congressional seats from the state. Hardly anyone.
There were progressive republicans.
Gee, you think? Teddy Roosevelt, anyone?
The mainstay of the KKK was always as a terrorist wing of the democrat party and is well known for targeting and murdering republicans.
Only in its Reconstruction iteration. Later Klans had other agendas. The 1920s Midwestern Klan was more concerned with Catholics, Jews and immigrants.
Your post was speaking of German-American immigrants and a German movement from 1848. Your first post clearly spoke of the 48ers desire to defend ‘liberty’. That is hardly a desire to expand government. Your reference to Hitler is not backed up by anything except your own propaganda.
You should quit posting. You're embarrassing your brothers in The Coven.
BTW, does your mommy know that you're cutting school and spending all day posting on internet sites?
I didn’t say it was ‘hardly anyone’. I simply do not agree with the statement ‘many republicans’ being KKK. I do not see how your example shows it to be ‘many republicans either. The majority of KKK support was entirely democrats during all of its stages and their targets were republicans.
Did you make this insult up yourself. Pathetic.
TheBigIf, for your info - I would not qualify ( even if I wanted ) for Klan membership. I’m also about sick of talking about it. You see, my Wife is a good part Cherokee and that wouldn’t qualify for the Klan’s 1/16 rule. So in other words, they would consider my children not racially pure.
It's good that you learned your name pokie. Now heel you mutt!
Why are you defending yourself against something that you were never accused of? I am simply stating that the KKK was founded by the Confederate democrats and then taken up by them again later when they were known as the Progressive democrats.
BTW, who are you, punkrr? You’ve claimed to have been born and raised in at least two different Southern states and you once posted a picture of your ‘back yard’ which turned out to be a snagged photo from Google Images.
Say please.
Wikipea has an interesting map of US ancestries by county: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-County.svg. German ancestry predominates in the North, and "American" and black predominate in the South. I find that I've lived in two black counties, two Hispanic counties, three German counties, one English county, one Italian county, and two Irish counties.
Fine, if you’re that intent on holding to your simplistic version of history, in spite of evidence to the contrary, I’m not going to waste my time talking you out of it.
So if I don’t agree with you then it is a waste of time?
The fact still remains that the KKK was a terrorist wing of the democrat party and they targeted republicans.
As with any movement or human trait you will never have an absolute tie between just one group and another so of course there have been republicans that have been racist or have been members of the KKK. Just as today we have liberal republicans as well, the lines get blurred sometimes and that is even used as a stradegy of democrats.
But you haven’t, imo, given evidence to make the statement ‘there were many republicans in the KKK’ true. There were not ‘many republicans’ in the KKK and the fact is that republicans were targets of the KKK.
Interesting map. I grew up in a central Illinois town with a huge German-descended community who arrived in the 1840s when the area was being settled. Another large community was white southerners who came up during the Depression for industrial jobs in the area. The joke (which they tell) is that they were on their way to Chicago but their cars broke down. My family was Italians who came to work the coal mines in the 1910s and lived in company houses on the hill outside of town, next to the mines.
See what we put up with!
Lorens SC 2008, outside the Redneck shop.
Hey, I was just simply minding my own business and didn’t even know that the debate was still going on in this thread but then got pulled into it this morning. Then of course I saw your ridiculous ‘Coven’ remark again about those who support the United States and simply wanted to remind you again that it is your beloved Confederate democrats who formed a coven or klavern.
"I've always loved you."
Has nothing to do with the Civil War I. We are not discussing the Klan. The Klan is nothing but a bunch of racist fools, not worth discussing.
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