He is. Whittle Bill is the kindly face the Revisionistas use to float historical myth-turds in the toilet bowl of discourse. Pissyante linked one the other day. I only got halfway though the video dissecting the historically blatantly inaccurate bullshit. He does not have what we could call an intimate relationship with accuracy. But he does have a nice smile, and for the gullible, that's all they need.
How about you itemize your objections so we can discuss?
Already did. Post 11, and 14.
My bad. Didn't see that post. However, you conveniently and questionably attribute no political affiliation to KKK founders.
That's because no such political affiliation has ever been recorded. Politics had nothing to do with it -- it was a social club founded as a lark. That's what all the K-alliterations were about. And then in the second iteration in 1915, Simmons had no known political affiliation either.
The white South in 1865 was, if not struggling to simply stay alive, was about resisting what it saw as "interlopers", continuing the war and putting down its perceived "threat" of a newly freed black population with the temerity to compete for jobs and register to vote. To this end multiple vigilante groups, and individuals, did what insurgents do, and took over the KKK. But the founders were simply six young Confederate soldiers. That's a matter of record. I even supplied their names.
I think that's disingenuous when you consider the democrat-dominated legacy of the KKK.
No more than the association fallacy of putting the existence of a Southern vigilante group with the fact that the Republican Party, brand new at the time and being the party of Lincoln who vanquished and humiliated it, found no fans there. "The enemy of my enemy is a member of my political party" doesn't really work in the pages of history. The fact is, none of these various groups had a political affiliation, because what they were doing, in their minds, was fighting a civil war. And in the second iteration, fighting a
social civil war not unlike this past week's angst over gay rights, against not just blacks but immigrants and Catholics and Jews and loose women. That's not politics; that's cultural.
Not to mention the various Republican KKK players already mentioned, not to mention the David Duke in the room and that whole ilk. This association fallacy is just that.
What's more, the anti-civil rights crew were mostly democrat and the democrat party has to this day capitalized on maintaining and relying on segregation of blacks.
Again, you're referring to a cultural movement that had everything to do with
geography and nothing with political philosophies.
I'll post this yet again and give yet another opportunity to ignore what's in plain sight:
CRA '64 ... The original House version:
- Southern Democrats: 7–87 (7–93%)
- Southern Republicans: 0–10 (0–100%)
- >>> ALL SOUTHERNERS: 7-97 (6.7%--93.3%)
- Northern Democrats: 145–9 (94 – 6%)
- Northern Republicans: 138–24 (85 – 15%)
- >>> ALL NORTHERNERS: 283-33 (89.6%--11.4%)
The Senate version:
- Southern Democrats: 1–20 (5–95%)
- Southern Republicans: 0–1 (0–100%)
- Northern Democrats: 45–1 (98–2%)
- Northern Republicans: 27–5 (84–16%)
- ALL SOUTHERNERS: 1--21 (4.5%--95.5%)
- ALL NORTHERNERS: 72--6 (92.3%--7.7%)
Yes, there is a party pattern in that each line shows more support from the D side than the R side. But again, 94 versus 85 on one side is not significant.
But
96 on one side versus 92 on the other side?? You just hit the motherlode.
The numbers don't lie; your pattern is clearly there but it's
regional, not political. And
regional, once again, means
cultural.
You take the numbers from the North -- both Dems and Repubs are for it.
You take the numbers from the South -- both Dems and Repubs are agin' it.
It's truly bipartisan in both directions.
Because it ain't about political parties. It never was. It was always about regional culture.
Political parties change with the wind. Cultures don't.