[muawiyah]

The mass-movement type Ku Klux Klan died out because the Grand Dragon in Indiana infected Marge Oberholzer by biting her breasts during a rape. She later died.

One thing led to another and next thing you know the Klan was out of business.

"My Indiana" by Irving Liebowitz has a really great take on the whole thing.

J. Edgar Hoover had nothing to do with this - probably actually liked those long flowing silk sheet in any case. His only involvement with the Klan came much later when there were many millions fewer members. He couldn't have stood up to the Indiana Klan for 10 minutes!

[spetznaz]

Ah ...i knew there was something i left out. Thanks for clarifying that Muawiyah. You are indeed correct .....that was the crux of the KKK and when the Klansmen saw what their leader had done they started to leave in droves. Hence it could be said it was the Grand Dragon of the Klan who destroyed the Klan by raping and brutally biting that girl on her breasts (she was white coincidentally SkyWalk meaning your premise that white supremacists do not do bad stuff to white people does not hold). That act finally made many of the kooks stop wearing bed sheets and leave the Klan due to its sheer brutality.

The actions of the FBI under Hoover could thus be said to have been at best a coup de grac in that it just ensured the Klan was truly finished as a real power. Thus although Hoover moped up the remains it was the Grand Dragon of the Klan in Indiana himself who killed the kook movement.

As for Hoover i really wonder a lot about him! After all if he used to cross dress in womens clothes then it is possible wearing white sheets with silly pointy hats was not a far stretch! I think if a guy will wear dresses and put on makeup (and he was the FBI head in an era when cross-dressing was not so carte blanche) then it is also possible he was in favor of wearing lil' Billy's bed sheets. And although i have never seen any evidence of Hoover being a Klan member i would not at all be surprised if he was. However he did implement some strategies that hurt the Klan ...although he might have done that just to save his own skin since he was a great political survivor and served under several administrations by chameleon tactics that even included blackmail.

[motexva]

Actually I thought the Souther Poverty Law Center essentially sued the main Ku Klux Klan organization out of existence in the late 80s after linking them to a killing, perhaps the one you mentioned. The relatives of the victims in that case actually ended up owning the property where the Klan headquarters stood. Now there are just decentralized state organizations, which I have always believed were merely a front for organized crime activities like drug dealing and car theft.