There is a fascinating article in Wikipedia on the KKK. In this article the word *Democrat* appears 24 times, mostly as perpetrators and allies of the KKK. The word *Republican* appears 23 times, mostly as victims of the KKK violence. Why this is interesting is that today most people due to media spin would think just the opposite would be true... Here is a sample: ...Lifting the Klan mask revealed a chaotic multitude of antiblack vigilante groups, disgruntled poor white farmers, wartime guerrilla bands, displaced *Democratic* politicians, illegal whiskey distillers, coercive moral reformers, sadists, rapists, white workmen fearful of black competition, employers trying to enforce labor discipline, common thieves, neighbors with decades-old grudges, and even a few freedmen and white *Republicans* who allied with *Democratic* whites or had criminal agendas of their own. Indeed, all they had in common, besides being overwhelmingly white, southern, and *Democratic*, was that they called themselves, or were called, Klansmen.[43] And this: ...Klan violence worked to suppress black voting. More than 2,000 persons were killed, wounded and otherwise injured in Louisiana within a few weeks prior to the Presidential election of November 1868. Although St. Landry Parish had a registered *Republican* majority of 1,071, after the murders, no *Republicans* voted in the fall elections. White *Democrats* cast the full vote of the parish for Grants opponent. The KKK killed and wounded more than 200 black *Republicans*, hunting and chasing them through the woods. Thirteen captives were taken from jail and shot; a half-buried pile of 25 bodies was found in the woods. The KKK made people vote *Democratic* and gave them certificates of the fact.[49] In the April 1868 Georgia gubernatorial election, Columbia County cast 1,222 votes for *Republican* Rufus Bullock. By the November presidential election, however, Klan intimidation led to suppression of the *Republican* vote and only one person voted for Ulysses S. Grant. 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. Fascinating...
Posted on: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 04:18:47 +0000
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