2aguy
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Technically, it was the Dem party. But I agree with your opinion OP.
No, it wasn't. There's no evidence the six founders had any political affiliation at all. For that matter there's also no evidence that Simmons, who started the 1915 Klan, had any either.
To the main point of the OP ---- if the Klan can be said to have any political party forebear it would be the Know Nothings of the 1840s-1850s, who were staunch anti-immigrant nativists. And violent. Their rallying cry of "100% Americanism" was picked up verbatim by the much larger Klan of the 20th century.
Yes...keep selling that to the democrats...to claim that former confederate officers would not have been voting for and part of the democrat party is simply ridiculous....
Tell us...did they vote Republican?
Quoting another in the long line of African Americans you dislike:
Martin Luther King Jr.
The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right
I think it is telling that those who insist on calling the modern Democratic Party the party of the KKK not incidentally also despise the icon of African American civil rights- Martin Luther King Jr.
And this is why Goldwater correctly voted against the 1964 Civil Rights act !
Not surprised that you are against the 1964 Civil Rights Act also.
Quoting another in the long line of African Americans you dislike:
Martin Luther King Jr.
The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right
I think it is telling that those who insist on calling the modern Democratic Party the party of the KKK not incidentally also despise the icon of African American civil rights- Martin Luther King Jr
Of course your party then went on to elect two Presidents who opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act
Ronald Reagan and George Bush.
The claim that either party is the party of the KKK in the modern context of course is just your stupid racist partisanship.
Who understands racism better? A bitter old white man who thinks pretty much every civil rights organization is racist?
Or Martin Luther King Jr.?
If you were living in 1915- you would be a member of the klan.
No moron...I am against the two provisions of the act that are unconstitutional......the one that is being used to keep racism alive and the other to attack the 1st amendment rights of Americans.......there should be no discrimination in government at all......but private property rights need to be maintained.......
The democrat party is the party of racism..they are obsessed with it and exploit race to achieve their power.