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Talk:Ku Klux Klan (view source)
Revision as of 01:25, September 26, 2023
, 01:25, September 26, 2023→Three incarnations of the same racist group
What was '''very different''' about them? Weren't they all pro-white and anti-black? --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 18:34, 8 May 2012 (EDT)
What was '''very different''' about them? Weren't they all pro-white and anti-black? --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 18:34, 8 May 2012 (EDT)
:I'm responding here over a decade later, though in summary, the three incarnations were separate and had limited direct connections with one another. The First Klan was the military arm of the Democratic Party and the Southern planter class during Reconstruction, while the Second Klan was nationwide and crossed party lines: progressive-leaning Republicans often outnumbered Democrats among Klan ranks in non-Southern states, I believe. The first incarnation was narrow in focus: violently restoring white supremacy and subjugating black people through paramilitary terrorism. The second incarnation was the least violent of the three overall, and broader in focus, emphasizing nativist racism against not only blacks, but also Catholics, Jews, and various immigrant groups who did not fully assimilate to "100 percent Americanism"—the First KKK may have had Catholic members, as it is rumored that the future SCOTUS justice and Catholic [[Edward D. White]] was a member.
:The Second KKK was less violently revolutionary in its approach than the First Klan. The second incarnation instead sought to win over public support from native-born white Protestants and gain political strength through democracy, which it supported over traditional republican values. The second incarnation also stressed liberal progressive reforms against both right-wing (i.e. Republican) and left-wing (i.e. Tammany Hall) machine politics.
:The Third Klan was more broadly similar to the first than the second, being limited to the South and concentrated narrowly on white supremacy, and much more militant. Of course, the third incarnation by the time of the [[civil rights movement]] was less directly associated with the Democratic Party—hardline "Dixiecrat" types dissented from the national Dems since the 1930s–40s, and the segregationist wing by the postwar era, comprised in large part of the old Bourbon faction which often despised mob violence ([[Harry F. Byrd]], for instance, signed statewide [[anti-lynching legislation]] as Virginia governor), often didn't include nearly as many viruently demagogic race-baiters compared to decades previous, particularly as the fallout from [[Theodore Bilbo]] rendered decibel racial bigotry more taboo than ever by then. —[[User:LT|<code><span style="background:#FF8181">'''LT'''</span></code>]] '''''[[User talk:LT|<sup>Rev. 22:13</sup>]]''''' Tuesday, 21:25, September 25, 2023 (EDT)
== Very interesting analysis I came across ==
== Very interesting analysis I came across ==