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[[File:Kkk-carpetbagger-cartoon.jpg|right|300px|thumb|A cartoon threatening that the KKK will lynch [[scalawag]]s (left) and [[carpetbagger]]s (right) on March 4, 1869, the day President Grant takes office. Tuscaloosa, Alabama, ''Independent Monitor'', September 1, 1868. A full-scale scholarly history analyzes the cartoonː Guy W. Hubbs, ''Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman'' (2015).<ref>Hubbs, Guy W. (May 15, 2015). [https://books.google.com/books?id=KIVoCQAAQBAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s "Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman"]. University Alabama Press.</ref> Note that the initials "KKK" are written on the side of a donkey, which is also the mascot of the Democrat Party, for which the KKK served as its original terrorist wing.]]

[[File:Kkk-carpetbagger-cartoon.jpg|right|300px|thumb|A cartoon threatening that the KKK will lynch [[scalawag]]s (left) and [[carpetbagger]]s (right) on March 4, 1869, the day President Grant takes office. Tuscaloosa, Alabama, ''Independent Monitor'', September 1, 1868. A full-scale scholarly history analyzes the cartoonː Guy W. Hubbs, ''Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman'' (2015).<ref>Hubbs, Guy W. (May 15, 2015). [https://books.google.com/books?id=KIVoCQAAQBAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s "Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman"]. University Alabama Press.</ref> Note that the initials "KKK" are written on the side of a donkey, which is also the mascot of the Democrat Party, for which the KKK served as its original terrorist wing.]]

The '''Exalted Cyclops''' is a position within the [[hierarchy]] of the [[Ku Klux Klan]]. The Ku Klux Klan is the oldest the militant [[terrorist]] arm of the [[American]] [[Democratic Party]].<ref><small>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."</small>Eric Foner, ''Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877'' (1988), p. 425–426.</ref>

The '''Exalted Cyclops''' is a position within the [[hierarchy]] of the [[Ku Klux Klan]], the oldest militant [[terrorist]] arm of the [[American]] [[Democratic Party]].<ref><small>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."</small>Eric Foner, ''Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877'' (1988), p. 425–426.</ref>

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