There's no evidence for most of them. Harding, Coolidge, Truman, often intimated, never documated.
Huh? Coolidge a and harding were not racists, but they were conservative.
Eugenics was racist as he'll, most of your consensus at the time was ravial.superiority through Eugenics. Science can be politicized very badly.
As I said, often intimated, never documated. They all happened to be around at the time the big Klan was peaking, and that was when the Klan actually was buggering in politics, on the state level anyway. Especially in the '20s. A third of the male population of Indiana ... 23% of the population of Maine.... so there's more evidence for others but not really Presidents.
I'm out for the night, it's ridiculously late.
I don't disagree, but Indiana isn't the south
Nope, nobody said it was. And I kinda suspect Maine isn't either. But I wasn't bringing up the South there -- I was bringing up the Klan and who was in it, and who wasn't, or there isn't credible evidence, but stories have been floated on the insatiably gullible internet, including Harding, Coolidge and Truman, none of which are very credible, apparently based simply on their being around at the relevant time.
Might be worth noting that the reason the Klan penetrated so much into Indiana and Maine, as well as Ohio, Kansas, Colorado, the Pacific Northwest and other areas outside the South, was their relentless rail against Catholics --- or Jews, or immigrants in general, or labor unions --- whatever worked in that area, they highlighted.... which were and still are all
constituents of the Democratic Party, which is why they elected Republicans in those areas, which underscores again that they had no broad alliance to any one party. They also railed heavily against alcohol (they were strongly pro-Prohibition), which also sold well in some areas. Their fuel came much more from religion (specifically Protestant Christianism) than it did from politics. If they had a political party affinity as I've noted before it would be with the old Know Nothing nativist party. Not that they claimed such a descendancy, but that's what they had most in common with philosophically, IMHO.
Nice try at rewriting history but the Klan was the sole creation of Democrats who wanted Republicans out of office and my link proves it. And George H.W. Bush didn't kill Kennedy, despite what you tried to imply in this post. You must be a glutton for punishment for continuing to bring it up, idiot.
Why did Jimmy Carter accomplish so little during his 4 years as president?
Conservatives created the Klan
Sure they did, that William Howard taft!!! Oh wait, it wasn't he who showed birth of a nation in the white house or resegregated the government..... no that was a liberal from new jersey
Actually the Klan didn't exist when Taft was in office, but fun fact -- Thomas Dixon, the writer of the book "The Clansman" on which Birth of a Nation was based, was a classmate of Woodrow Wilson's. Wilson, a racist asshole, wasn't from New Jersey formatively. That was just where he worked. He was from Virginia and spent significant growing-up time in southern Georgia (Augusta). That origin should tell you a lot.
That film was stirring a sensation in that already acutely racist period, and "Colonel Joe" Simmons timed his resurrection of the second Klan to coincide with its arrival in Atlanta, charging up Stone Mountain on Thanksgiving 1915 to erect a dramatic fiery cross above the city in its official baptism of fire. And the burning cross was an entirely new concept --- it had never been part of the original Klan. Griffith worked that into the film for dramatic effect and the revived Klan acted out the film.
