Go back and study the history. The Klan arose among southern planters and former confederates who were disenfranchised by the North during Reconstruction. General McClellan's autobiography tells us that Lincoln was pushed into war by radical Republicans who had a dream of freeing the slaves, disenfranchising southern whites, and setting up a permanent, loyal Republican majority in the defeated South. The Cabal, which was operative among the Northern elites at the time, wanted to get rid of slavery and create a free-labor economy in the South--wage slaves. The Northern elites wanted power over their Southern counterparts.
The North sent agents into the South to set up the Union Leagues or Loyal Leagues, which were a quasi-Masonic secret society with ritual initiations. The Leagues conducted political indoctrination of the blacks and formed them into militias that terrorized whites.
The Klan arose as a response to the Leagues. It was initially under the operational control of southern elites and it ran a counter-insurgency that targeted Union League members. When copycats began to emerge, around 1867 or so, the Klan leadership gave the order to stand down and to stop wearing the hoods and robes. Thereafter, any hoods-and-robes groups that operated were the copycats, not the Klan. By 1870, "official" Klan was pretty much done. The KKK that became active in the 1920s was not the same organization. It assumed the symbolism, but it had no connections to the original Klan.
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ldsanon ago
Go back and study the history. The Klan arose among southern planters and former confederates who were disenfranchised by the North during Reconstruction. General McClellan's autobiography tells us that Lincoln was pushed into war by radical Republicans who had a dream of freeing the slaves, disenfranchising southern whites, and setting up a permanent, loyal Republican majority in the defeated South. The Cabal, which was operative among the Northern elites at the time, wanted to get rid of slavery and create a free-labor economy in the South--wage slaves. The Northern elites wanted power over their Southern counterparts.
The North sent agents into the South to set up the Union Leagues or Loyal Leagues, which were a quasi-Masonic secret society with ritual initiations. The Leagues conducted political indoctrination of the blacks and formed them into militias that terrorized whites.
The Klan arose as a response to the Leagues. It was initially under the operational control of southern elites and it ran a counter-insurgency that targeted Union League members. When copycats began to emerge, around 1867 or so, the Klan leadership gave the order to stand down and to stop wearing the hoods and robes. Thereafter, any hoods-and-robes groups that operated were the copycats, not the Klan. By 1870, "official" Klan was pretty much done. The KKK that became active in the 1920s was not the same organization. It assumed the symbolism, but it had no connections to the original Klan.
Pluviou5 ago
Both the North and the South had been played by the jews. Nathan Bedford Forrest was a jew.