The media who continue printing wrong info should do some research. They are wrong.
The people who were in the KKK, of whatever stripe, were really awful people. The Northern Whites were not in the KKK, with very rare exception…. Some of the Southern Democrats were…not all by a long shot. There are many references at the link below…
Historian Eric Foner observed:
In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic party, the planter class, and all those who desired restoration of white supremacy. Its purposes were political, but political in the broadest sense, for it sought to affect power relations, both public and private, throughout Southern society. It aimed to reverse the interlocking changes sweeping over the South during Reconstruction: to destroy the Republican party's infrastructure, undermine the Reconstruction state, reestablish control of the black labor force, and restore racial subordination in every aspect of Southern life.[17]
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