Not personally,but I've seen Kluxers trying to recruit at gun shows in Colorado. This was over 20 years ago,though.
>> Have you met anyone who had even ever heard about anyone or anything related to the Klan?<<
Yes,my mother and my aunt were both saved by their local KKK from abuse when they were both less than 10 years old. Their parents had died during the flu epidemic of 1918,so both young girls were "boarded-out" to a old batchelor who lived alone. He needed somebody to cook and help him around the house,and the girls needed some place to live. The agreement was that they would help care for him and provide him with company (a VERY rural area) in exchange for him feeding,clothing,and sending them to school. My mother told me that one Friday night the Klan showed up in his yard with torches burning and ordered him out in the yard. The head Kluxer told him,"Old man,I've been told you ain't been providing for them girls or sending them to school,and that you have been spending all your extra money drinking. If we hear just one more report on you like this,we will return and horsewhip you.If that doesn't work,we will come back again and hang you."
My mother told me that they NEVER had one more minutes worth of trouble out of that old man as long as they lived there. There wasn't any court of appeals with those boys,and hiring a lawyer or being related to somebody important didn't mean squat. If they said it,they meant it.
By the way, while the KKK was a without a doubt a murderous, racist organization, they were praised by black separatist Marcus Garvey (founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association) for the way that they kept their people in line.
No, I am not a fan of Garvey, either.