The Progressive Nature of the Ku Klux Klan

I was always uncomfortable of how any time's Senator Byrd's name was mentioned conservative had to bring up the KLAN. People change. Still it is interesting how people somehow nowadays get the history of the Klan mixed up!!

Southern Appeal has a good post on this at The Klan and Progressivism.

As he points out to just look at the partisan makeup of the Klan is well missing the bigger and more interesting point!! I really suggest looking at the REASON article he links Hooded Progressivism


I think this about right. Now what would be interesting to research was what were Catholic thinking that were Democrat at the time. As is pointed out in many areas the KLAN was much more anti Catholic and anti Jewish than anti black. Were there significant defections to the GOP. Was there an internal war happening over this. That would be a interesting area to go into.

Getting back to the main point on economic issues the Klan was very much more to the "left" than is advertised.