Contrary to what uninformed liberals believe, the [[Ku Klux Klan]] was an outgrowth of the [[Democrat Party]], with overlapping membership rolls. The Klan was to the Democrats what the [[American Civil Liberties Union]] is today: Not every Democrat is a member of the ACLU, but every member of the ACLU is a Democrat. The same is true with the Klan. [<ref name="Ann Coulter">http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2012-04-18.html]</ref>
After the war, Democrat legislatures enacted "[[Jim Crow|Black Codes]]," , denying black Americans the rights of citizenship— citizenship — such as the rather crucial one of bearing arms— arms — while other Democrats (sometimes the same Democrats) founded the Ku Klux Klan. (ibid)<ref name="Ann Coulter"/>
Even to this day, the KKK (as do similar racist groups and movements such as [[Black Lives Matter]] and La Raza) are supportive of the Democrats. During the [[2016 United States presidential election]], the KKK supported [[Hillary Clinton]] for President<ref>[http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-03-14/ku-klux-klan-grand-dragon-will-quigg-endorses-hillary-clinton-for-president Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon Will Quigg Endorses Hillary Clinton for President] at U.S. News & World Report</ref>, whose mentor, the late Democratic senator [[Robert Byrd]], was a longtime KKK member<ref>Pianin, Eric. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061801105_pf.html A Senator's Shame: Byrd, in His New Book, Again Confronts Early Ties to KKK]. Washington Post, 2005-06-19, pp. A01</ref>. After This came after the Klan's attemptattempted, in possible collusion with the Democrats , to discredit [[Donald Trump]] and his campaign, he by publicly pretended pretending to "support" him (and in so doing, fabricated a false link between the KKK and the Republicans and falsely labeled the GOP as the "racist" party, as the Democrats have done since 1964<ref>[http://www.blackandblondemedia.com/2009/01/14/democrat-race-lie/ The Democrat Race Lie] at Black & Right</ref>). This backfired when Trump in particular, and the GOP in general, who have always opposed the KKK and despise what they stand for, rejected the Klan's "endorsement"; thus, the historic Democrat-KKK link, which has long been common knowledge,<ref>[http://www.wnd.com/2016/07/the-ugly-history-of-democratic-suppression-of-blacks/ The Ugly History of Democratic Suppression of Blacks] at WND</ref> was brought to light.
[[Thomas Sowell]] wrote:
*{{racist jim crow democrats}} ==Examples of Democrat racism==* In the wake of the rioting in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12, 2017, Wes Bellamy, the Democrat vice-mayor of Charlottesville under mayor Mike Signer and a local educator, was forced to resign his post in the Virginia Board of Education after he was exposed as a racist via his social media comments, which exposed his racist and sexist views.<ref>[https://conservativedailypost.com/charlottesville-democrat-resigns-racist-messages-leak/ Charlottesville Democrat Resigns As His Racist Messages LEAK] at the Conservative Daily Post</ref> (Please add to the list)
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