Dear, God, OP-er! You and the author of the
Top Secret Leaks article could not be any more dissembling in your depiction of the Democratic Party. There is no question that the KKK had a material place in the Democratic Party of 1924. This is 2017, however, and the KKK have shifted their allegiance to the Republican Party.
The protracted transformation of the GOP via what is called the "Southern Strategy" had its
nascence in the post-Reconstruction days of GOP 19th century when it was little but an attempt not to entirely lose the South and
found its rhetorical mark in the 1960s, something that was apparent to then contemporary observers, and
squarely hit that mark in the 1980s when the GOP unabashedly and in earnest employed the hateful pathos of racial angst, aggrievance, and animosity to court provincial Southern Democrats ("Blue Dog Democrats") who found themselves corrugated within an increasingly cosmopolitan party.
Quite simply, things change.
Lastly, it is lamentably ironic -- and frankly, piteously imbecilic -- that conservatives (or anyone, really) today broker the line you have insofar as in 1924, the GOP was the party of liberals. The notion that the Democratic Party of early 20th century and before ideologically mirrors today's Democratic Party while the GOP has remained unchanged is a procrustean personification of perverse puerility. I mean, really, dude. It's just laughably f*cking-stupid!