The Klan were not so much "conservatives" as "ĂĽbeconservatives"
The KKK was founded by the Dumbocrats, you dimwit. There wasn't a conservative in sight.
WRONG Buttsoiler.
The Klan was founded Christmas 1865 in the law office of Thomas Jones at 205 West Madison Steet in Pulaski Tennessee by (Capt) John C. Lester, (Major) James R. Crowe, (Capt) John D. Kennedy, Calvin Jones, Richard R. Reed, Frank O. McCord, all twentysomething ex-soldiers who were bored, as an innocuous social club. None of them had any known political affiliation.
The second iteration was founded by William J. "Colonel Joe" Simmons on Thanksgiving Day 1915 on Stone Mountain in Georgia (where I am right now). Simmons was an ex-minister, a salesman, an inveterate club-starter, a drunk, and most to the point an opportunist seeking to cash in on the rampant racism of the time especially the controversy of the film Birth of a Nation, by selling memberships. Simmons too had no political affiliation.
Ironically neither the motives of the six in 1865 nor Simmons 50 years later had anything to do with politics, and both went to some length to
disconnect themselves from political affiliation. But the first KKK was taken over by vigilante "night rider" a/k/a "slave patrol" elements that had already existed since the 18th century, and the Simmons Klan spread its net much wider to oppose all sorts of ethnicities, social movements and eventually politics (communism). Both of them hid behind Christianism and both, in their thrusts of racism, ethnic bigotry, moral policing, etc, followed
extremely conservative social principles.
I gave you names, dates and places right there. You go right ahead and try to prove any of that wrong. Be the first.