[billbears]

It's all there at www.republicanbasics.com.

Oh, well then!! If it's at a website sponsored by the Republican party, it must be the inerrant word. The fact is that by 1868, Forrest disbanded the Klan for the exact reason that some of its members were becoming racist. The Klan that was started after that was during the lovely years of military rule that Yankees call Reconstruction

[Grand Old Partisan]

Nathan Bedford Forrest, who killed 32 U.S. soldiers, disbanded the Klan because it was becoming an insurgent group, which he opposed, not wanting to restart the Civil War. After that, the Klan was reborn in statewide organizations such as the White League and the Red Shirts, and the Democratic Party. The second KKK was not founded until 1915, after "Birth of a Nation." That Klan was disbanded in 1944. The third round of Klans sprang up in the 1970s.