History tells us that the demoKKKrat party founded the KKK. Do you believe it or are you in denial?

Question

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ku_klux_klan
"The Klan's first incarnation was in 1866, and was "directly linked with the Democratic Party, which likewise championed a return of near-servile status to emancipated blacks"[1]. Founded by veterans of the Confederate Army, its main purpose was to resist Reconstruction, and it focused as much on intimidating "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags" as on putting down the freed slaves. It quickly adopted violent methods."

They also seem to like drawing swastikas.
http://www.zombietime.com/hall_of_shame/

DemoKKKrat = CONFIRMED party of race-baiting, class-warfare, and full-blown blind hatred.

Corygraph, you're so full of ****. You're nothing more than a manipulator of facts. Bush has minorities in his cabinet, but Dems will call them UNCLE TOMS in a whim?

Answer 1

Let's see how they try to lie/deny their way out of this one!!!!!

Answer 2

The original Ku Klux Klan was first established in Pulaski, Tennessee after the end of the American Civil War on December 24, 1865 by Confederate veterans. It grew to prominence after a convention held in Nashville in the summer of 1866. At this convention, Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest presided as the Grand Wizard.

The main goal of the Klan was to fight Congressional Reconstruction. During the Reconstruction the South was undergoing drastic changes to its social and political life. Whites saw this as a threat to their supremacy as a race and sought to end this process. Due to Congress enacting laws that promoted racial equality, southern whites could not turn to the law in order to regain their power through the Democratic Party. In addition, the Klan sought to control the political and social status of the freed slaves. More specifically, it attempted to curb black education, economic advancement, and voting rights. Violence came to be seen as the best way to accomplish their goals. However, the Klan's violence was not limited to African Americans; Southern Republicans also became the target of vicious intimidation tactics. The Klan became the violent arm of the Democratic Party. As federal control of the ex-Confederate states was withdrawn, the local white population re-established their power and with it segregation laws.

Answer 3

Your confused and need to do more research instead of labeling. I guess your point is valid except you are pointing the finger at the wrong party. The Republican party in the 1860's became what we now know as the Democratic party. It was actually your ideology that supported the KKK. Get your facts straight

Answer 4

Wow. You can't even cut-and-paste quote without distorting it to suit your own hate-based agenda.

From the link you cited: "The Klan's first incarnation was in 1866. Founded by veterans of the Confederate Army, its main purpose was to resist Reconstruction".

What was the Democratic party in the 1860s became the platform of the Republican party in the 1960s, after the Democrats shifted to encompass the liberal movement in the 1920s and 1930s.

So, history doesn't say any such thing, unless you (as usual) take statements completely out of context.

Answer 5

Ok, Ill bite, as a democrat, I haven't researched the KKK because this day and age there is no need to. There are more black members of the KKK today than there are Republicans in office, so its a rather mute point, but in the same instance is it not the Republicans who branded all Islams terrorists? So I guess both parties are equally as wrong, and you have no real room to bring that point up.

Answer 6

a million) different than for information pertaining to to the separate and unequal race-based instructions, no Democrat has ever been waiting to quote EVEN one way Democrats selection from KKK, Skinheads etc. 2) different than for some ancillary factors fully UNRELATED TO RACE, no Democrat has ever been waiting to quote EVEN one way Republicans are akin to the KKK, Skinheads etc. 3) Posting costs from white supremacists and Democrats component with the aid of component, ALL Democrat respondents continuously declare it relatively is a trick question and that the two costs are from white supremacists. (in a fashion, they are good, of path.) a million+2+3 = All Democrats rather have confidence it relatively is the spectacular who're racists. it is data of psychological ailment, of path.

Answer 7

They were Southern Democrats who were Democrats because Lincoln was a Republican. They were CONSERVATIVE Democrats who often voted with the Republicans, they lasted into the latter part of the 20th Century until many just converted to being Republicans.

For example, Strom Thurmond was a Democrat, then a "Dixiecrat" then a Republican.

Answer 8

Yes they did. However, the two parties have since switched sides in politics (switched around in approximately 1948). The Democrat party that founded the KKK no longer exists, and has been replaced with the Republican party of today (though I don't think the majority of them are racist, they just don't care).

Answer 9

How is the democrat a party of race-baiting, class-warfare and full-blown blind hatred? You're making it sound like we worship satan or something.

Answer 10

Lastly get what the site is saying you monkey boy...

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Thanks for trying to screw up the website

Answer 11

Southern Democrats would be a more apt name for the party at that time. They have since morphed into Republicans, of course.
But why quibble over historical accuracy when ignorance is so much more fun?