Quote from Artful D0dger:
More revisionist work,.
The democrats didn't support civil rights, the republicans did. The northern republicans and the southern republicans. I'll make it simple for you. The democrats opposed it, albeit in a higher % in the south than in the north... Yet the northern republicans still had a higher % of their vote FOR civil rights than the northern democrats. Hence, virtually all opposition to the civil rights act, in both the north and the south, came from the democrats. MLK was a republican. So much for that myth.
It was the democrats who seceded. The north were all republicans, Lincoln was a republican. The southern states were all democrat.
The KKK was not exclusively a southern group, there were KKK across the nation, which had chapters from north to south. The KKK WAS exclusively democrat though. The KKK does not call itself republican however. The KKK has in fact spoken out against both the republicans AND the tea party specifically.
Try again! This is strike 3, so make it good! LOL!!

Quote from AK Forty Seven:
Lets try this again
The south voted against the civil rights act
The south succeeded
The KKK was a southern group
First KKK
"The first Klan was founded in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee, as a terrorist organization[7] by veterans of the Confederate Army.[12] They named it after the Greek word 'kuklos", which means circle. The name means "Circle of Brothers."[13]
Although there was no organizational structure above the local level, similar groups arose across the South, adopting the name and methods.[citation needed] Klan groups spread throughout the South as an insurgent movement during the Reconstruction era in the United States"
Second KKK
In 1915, the second Klan was founded and remained a small organization in Georgia.
Third KKK
The "Ku Klux Klan" name was used by many independent local groups opposing the Civil Rights Movement and desegregation, especially in the 1950s and 1960s. During this period, they often forged alliances with Southern police departments, as in Birmingham, Alabama; or with governor's offices, as with George Wallace of Alabama.
What party represents the south now ?
Quote from Artful D0dger:
That's strike 3, LOL!!
Indeed, all they had in common, besides being overwhelmingly white, southern, and Democratic, was that they called themselves, or were called, Klansmen.
Historian Eric Foner observed:
In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic party
The KKK made people vote Democratic and gave them certificates of the fact.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan
Ouch AK, what a trainwreck you're having tonight.
Of course, the republicans represent the south NOW, but then, in the day of the KKK, the democrats did. Now that the democrats no longer represent the south, of course the Klan no longer does either. It's not complicated. The Klan thrived in the south BECAUSE the south was democrat. The Klan no longer thrives in the South BECAUSE the south is republican.
Of course I'm sure you know how the modern KKK has spoken out against republicans, and specifically the tea party, right? LOL!!
Ku Klux Klan Says It Doesn't Condone Tea Party
http://www.good.is/post/ku-klux-klan-says-it-doesn-t-condone-tea-party-or-koran-burning/
It's too bad that your partisan brainwashing keeps you so far out of touch with reality.

Quote from AK Forty Seven:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
Southern strategy
In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to the late-20th century Republican Party strategy of winning elections in Southern states by exploiting anti-African American racism among Southern white voters and appealing to states' rights. Though the "Solid South" had been a longtime Democratic Party stronghold due to the Democratic Party's defense of slavery prior to the American Civil War and segregation for a century thereafter, many Southern Democrats were alienated from the party following the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, and desegregation.
The strategy was first adopted under future Republican President Richard Nixon in the late 1960s and continued through the latter decades of the 20th century under presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. The strategy was successful in achieving its goals; it led to the electoral realignment of Southern states to the Republican Party, but at the expense of losing more than 90 percent of black voters to the Democratic Party.

Quote from AK Forty Seven:
Take note of The KKK's political position
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan#Contemporary_Klan:_1970s.E2.80.93present
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