David Duke got zero support from the national Republican party most of those so called Republicans you cited were local candidates The "Demacratic" party is still racist, scum who use race like a conservative Republican never would
Is there any wonder why more blacks aren"t republicans? Sheesh the hahttp://Conservatives and Racism Page 6 US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum they have to endure....
He also got "zero" support from the state when he tried to run for gubbernor -- so much so that Sleaziana cars sported bumper stickers saying "vote for the crook -- it's important", referring to convicted felon Edwin Edwards. In other words a convicted felon was preferable to a KKKandidate. That's not the point. The point is that when Duke went to run for office (he also ran for President and successfully for state House), he did so as a Republican. Is that because he identifies with Republican ideology and that makes the two identical? Or is that because he was trying to appeal to a certain constituency?
Interesting side note-- Duke was born in Tulsa Oklahoma, site of the Tulsa Race Riots of 1921, arguably the worst race riot in this country's history, where an entire prosperous section of town called "the black Wall Street" was completely destroyed and even bombed from the air. Tulsa like the other places mentioned above was another bed of Klan instigation, and when a governor named Jack Walton came in and tried to eradidate that Klan influence, the KKK got him removed from office. Walton was a Democrat.
So these loose associations, again, just don't pass the smell test of history. Because you're not seeing the players for what their real actions and motivations are and instead plugging in unhinged fantasies from the frothing mouths of Limblobian demagogue shit-stirrers. And I know that's your source from your use of the malaprop "Democrat Party". Dead giveaway. Again, get your head out of the sand and stop swallowing simplistic fairy tales. Those fables are constructed on an agenda. And history proves that.
I can claim to be the tooth fairy doesn't mean much.... Duke was no Republican