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To: Natural Law
That is because the slave holding states, with the exception of Lousiana, were predominantly Protestant and the Klan was as active against "Papists" as they were freed slaves......Duh!!!!

That is an ignorant statement.

The original Ku-Klux Klan, the one that targeted freed slaves (along with the Union army and Republicans like my ancestors) was not in the least anti-Catholic (or anti-Jewish) and did not burn crosses. In fact, the original Klan had Catholic and Jewish members.

It was the twentieth century Klan that was anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish, not the original "terrorist wing of the Democrat party."

58 posted on 09/19/2011 1:52:17 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
"The original Ku-Klux Klan, the one that targeted freed slaves (along with the Union army and Republicans like my ancestors) was not in the least anti-Catholic..."

Now THAT was an ignorant statement!

Klan apologetics is a new low even for the Religion Forum. There are some theories that the Second Klan of the 1920 was more anti-Catholic (because there were more Catholics following the influx of immigrants from Catholic countries in the 1870-1890's, but that is wrong. Catholics trouughout the South in the Reconstruction period were largely immigrants, carpetbaggers, and Republicans.

64 posted on 09/19/2011 2:06:13 PM PDT by Natural Law (For God so loved the world He did not send a book.)
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