Woodrow Wilson was a child of the Confederacy.
Born in 1856 in Staunton, Virginia, his family supported slavery and the Confederacy.
Wilson witnessed the Civil War as a boy in Augusta, Georgia.
- "Academically, Wilson was an apologist for slavery and the Redeemers, and one of the foremost promoters of the Lost Cause mythology.[290]
Wilson was the first Southerner elected president since Zachary Taylor in 1848 and the only former subject of the Confederacy.
Wilson's election was celebrated by southern segregationists.
At Princeton, Wilson actively dissuaded the admission of African-Americans as students.[291]
Several historians have spotlighted consistent examples in the public record of Wilson's overtly racist policies and the inclusion of segregationists in his Cabinet.[292][293][294]
Other sources say Wilson defended segregation as "a rational, scientific policy" in private and describe him as a man who "loved to tell racist 'darky' jokes about black Americans."[295][296]"
- "The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation.....until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the southern country..."
"...Wilson described himself as an opponent of both slavery and the Confederacy, though based solely on the grounds that neither would in the long term prove beneficial for the southern economy.
The idea that holding another human being in bondage as chattel was inherently immoral is absent from any of the Wilson's discussion on the subject: on the contrary, Wilson described slavery as a benevolent state for Negros, whose white masters looked after their "comfort and welfare" and 'meted out justice fairly.' [14]"
Pelham: "The 2nd KKK era which began in 1915 included two Republican Governors, one being Edward Jackson of Indiana.
The Democrat = Klan is a myth, they had no party affiliation.
The Klan was anti-Catholic at a time when Democrats were running Al Smith for President."
Indiana Governor Edward Jackson (politically active from 1916 to 1929) was a crooked politician who took bribes from the Ku Klux Klan and offered bribes to other politicians.
He was eventually exposed and disgraced by fellow Republicans and his downfall helped destroy the 2nd Ku Klux Klan nationwide.
The Ku Klux Klan was absolutely a product of Southern Democrats, whose tentacles reached out of the South into northern states like Indiana and, like everything Democratic, it corrupted whomever it touched, in rare cases even a corrupt Republican politician like Edward Jackson.
Historically, as our current abject situation illustrates, corruption is a feature of Democrat politics.
It's a failure among Republicans.
Pelham: "Jim Crow laws, Black Codes, existed all across Northern states in the decades prior to the Civil War.
They weren’t invented in the South."
In every case in the North that I know of, such laws were passed by Democrats sympathetic to the South and eventually abolished by Republicans less so.
Democrats forever own slavery, racism, black codes, KKK type terrorism, voting restrictions, segregation, the Confederacy and everything else associated.
Republicans are the major force responsible for ending all of those, period.