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Politics : Is Secession Doable? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (1588)	11/26/2004 2:06:42 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1968

At its peak in the mid-1920s its membership was estimated at 4 million to 5 million." 4 to 5 million was not a majority of the South, but more importantly I notice you quoted your own source out of context. I wasn't quoting it out of context.....the membership at one time was that high. By the 1930s, the depression and the increasing illegality of the Klan forced membership down. That does mean that its influence had a commensurate decline. In fact, the Klan played a meaningful if not sublimnal role in Southern life right up to the 1960s and even beyond that. ted