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To: epicure who wrote (46224)	2/1/2000 1:21:00 AM
From: jpmac	Respond to of 71178

I don't know if this was in that documentary, but after nearly dying out, the Klan had a resurgance in the 20's. They had over 2 mil members all over the nation. It was quite in vogue. But at that point, it was not just directed at blacks, or about White Supremacy, but about protestant, older white-American supremacy. There was a great influx of immigrants then from Ireland, Russia, Italy, etc. Catholics who answered to that Pope were on the bad list. It is not unlike today, where there is a backlash against immigrants and people with different cultures and religions.

To: epicure who wrote (46224)	2/1/2000 4:33:00 AM
From: nihil	Respond to of 71178

Remember that "Reconstruction" (occupation by Federal troops enforcing the Reconstruction amendments and laws] in some Southern states continued until 1877. This ended with the "Great Compromise" that allowed the Republicans to steal the 1876 Presidential election of Hayes over Tilden and Hayes agreed to withdraw the troops from the South. Once the troops were withdrawn, it became possible for Southern redemptionists to resieze government control from the "unholy alliance" of Carpetbaggers (Northern immigrants), Scallawags (Southern turncoats), and newly enfranchised blacks (who made up Southern State Republican Parties). Many of the Redemptioners were "respectable" Southern gentlemen (like "The Hero of Appomattox" General Brown of Georgia or General Wade Hampton of South Carolina) who were termed "Bourbons" because they were the ci-devant ruling class. The poor Southerners were ignored and betrayed by both the Republicans and the Redemptioners and slowly struggled into power, representing some of the most stupid and vicious people in the South. The demogogues (Tillman, Rankin, Bilbo, Talmadge, the Longs) were sometimes gentry themselves, but they specialized in driving the blacks out of politics and voting by "grandfather clauses" and similar violations of the Constitution. Of course, the Republicans rarely tried to enforce the 14th and 15th amendments or prevented lynching and other local Southern sports.