Wy is it never mentioned that the Klan was/is a Democrat construct?
It used to be an organization that fought for the rights of freed slaves until the republicans took it over. At least that’s what the (never)left wing extremist radicals would have everyone believe.
I've had this discussion with them. They come back with some nonsense about the left and the right swapping ideologies at some point in the past, so it's really been them all along on the right side of everything.
The argument goes that the parties switched. Those democRats are now Republicans.
The argument goes that the parties switched. Those democRats are now Republicans.
Jim Crow winks.
Democrats claim that there was a “great switch” of racists to the Republican party when the Democratic Solid South became the Red State bloc. In his documentary film, Hillary’s America, Dinesh D’Souza addressed that issue. It is true that the white South switched from Democrat to Republican, but D’Souza illustrated graphically that the number of Democrat politicians who switched from D to R was negligible. He said there were, I don’t know, some 2000 plus elected officers in the South, and he showed black-and-white thumbnail pictures of them - all Democrats before the so-called “great switch.”In that single frame he then changed from b-w to color the photos of all the ones who switched from Democrat to Republican. It was Strom Thurman and eleven others - a total of twelve, out of thousands. Strom Thurmond switched from the party of the KKK. Robert Byrd - and nearly all of the rest of the Southern Democrat politicians, including Clinton mentor J. William Fulbright - didn't.
Like most blacks after the Civli War, Martin Luther King, Sr. was a Republican, Negros - as the polite term then was - switched to the Democrat Party reluctantly, but pretty much en blanc for economic reasons before white southerners became majority Republican. As late as 1960 Nixon expected to win the negro vote - and was surprised/disappointed that they went for Kennedy.
In reality, as you know, the KKK now has no national political party willing to affiliate with it. In reality, the National Rifle Association is the oldest Civil Rights organization still extant in the US. It was founded by Union officers to support the right of blacks to have weapons with which to resist the KKK.