Talk:Ku Klux Klan

BY any reasonable standards, the KKK are terrorists.

Dunno...don't terrorists actually, you know...DO stuff? The think about the klan is they're not a centralized organization...just a lot of tiny splinter groups...they're no longer the powerful machine they were in the twenties. Czolgolz 09:34, 27 March 2007 (EDT)

Democratic link

I explained it in context. If the context is removed, so must be the link.-AmesG_yo! 16:31, 1 April 2007 (EDT)

More fantasy

I think this is pure fantasy:

Prior to the Reagan Realignment, the Democratic Party was the party of the South - it overwhelmingly controlled the South. Especially prior to Strom Thurmond's "Dixiecrat" splinter movement, the Democratic Party was responsible for a good deal of racist legislation, and was perceived to be connected to the Klan. However, such a causal connection is over fifty years old and the Klan bears no connection with any modern mainstream political party.

Facts are, the Democratic party still controls the South at all levels of government, and any so-called "re-alingnment" was fictional or imaginary. But you get an "E" for "effort", putting Reagan's name on the KKK page. And the claim "the Klan bears no connection with any modern mainstream political party", we would have to actually ask Klansman what thier party preference is for this claim to be valid; anyone willing to wager what the result would be? RobS 17:06, 1 April 2007 (EDT)

Well, Rob, you could ask David Duke, who served as the chairman of the Tammany Parish Republican party for a while.

Sorry, but the GOP's Southern Strategy is no fantasy, as anyone old enough to remember the '60s and '70s will tell you. And before taking me up on this wager I should warn you, in fairness, that I am from the south, and can remember the exodus of southern racists from the Democratic Party to the GOP. --PF Fox 17:08, 1 April 2007 (EDT)

Actually, RobS, I could cite you to a dozen books about Southern politics describing the Reagan Realignment (they're all by Earl or Merle Black, one of which I studied with, so... got anything better?), but if you want to delete that whole paragraph, I'll remove the cartoon too. Seems a good compromise, ne? I'm shocked, though, that you don't care to understand your own party's history.-AmesG_yo! 17:10, 1 April 2007 (EDT)

It's incredible. All I can guess is that a lot of these people unaware of the GOP's famous "southern strategy" are too young to remember that time and haven't read much on the subject. --PF Fox 17:14, 1 April 2007 (EDT)

I choose to believe willful blindness - its practice is rampant on this site. Radiocarbon dating?! Lalalalala I can't hear you.-AmesG_yo! 17:16, 1 April 2007 (EDT)

Facts are, the Democratic party still controls the South at all levels of government, and any so-called "re-alingnment" was fictional or imaginary.

Yet they have a hard time getting Southerners to vote for Democratic presidential candidates. How odd. It must be the same way the Liberals control the media, yet can't seem to get their candidates and policies show in a good light. --BDobbs 17:19, 1 April 2007 (EDT)