The KKK and the GOP teamed up in Oregon to pass the ultimate anti Catholic law - banning Catholic schools.
In that election, voters also supported a Klan-endorsed initiative that effectively outlawed private and parochial schools.
In less than two years, the Klan recruited 14,000 members in Oregon, giving it perhaps the highest per-capita membership in the country. And in the 1922 election, it succeeded in unseating Congressman Clifton McArthur and Olcott, and electing a new governor, two Multnomah County commissioners and a slate of state legislators. It also helped pass a nationally notorious initiative aimed at putting Catholic schools out of business.Not ALL GOP types are bigots or supported the KKK, but the anti-immigrant, anti Catholic bigots tainted the GOP then - and now - to the point that many of us still view the GOP with suspicion.
You really want to defend the abortion voters and now try to create a myth that the KKK was not an organization of Democrats?