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alumbrado...you ARE delirious if you really believe that crap you spew! The KKK has never been ‘hundreds of citizens in every community openly proclaiming KKK membership and conducting public lynchings…”
"In 1915, a second group was founded in Atlanta, Georgia using the same name. Inspired by power of the modern mass media, including sensational newspaper and film, it attracted recruits, mostly in cities, because of anxieties and tensions aroused over the massive social changes of rapid urbanization, migration of rural whites and African Americans to cities, as well as massive immigration in the late 19th and early 20th century by mostly rural peoples from Southern and Eastern Europe, and the postwar climate of returning veterans after WWI. These different groups met in the cities, and confronted each other in competition for jobs, housing and social place.[1]
The movement of the 1910s and 1920s gained the most membership, but also diminished sharply in power by the late 1920s. The second KKK was a formal fraternal organization, with a national and state structure, that paid thousands of men to organize local chapters all over the country. At its peak in the early 1920s, the organization was active in numerous cities of the Midwest and far west as well as the South, such as Detroit, Chicago, Indianapolis, Portland, Denver, Atlanta, Memphis and Knoxville, and Dallas.[2]
Estimates varied as to membership, from 2-5 million men.[3] Higher estimates of 4-5 million represented about 15% of the nation's eligible population.[4]Some local groups took part in lynchings and other violent activities. Its popularity fell rapidly in the late 1920s. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan
http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/kkk_lynching1.jpg
"Historians in recent years have obtained membership rosters of some local units and matched the names against city directory and local records to create statistical profiles of the membership. Big city newspapers were unanimously hostile and often ridiculed the Klansmen as ignorant farmers. Detailed analysis from Indiana shows the stereotype was false:
Indiana's Klansmen represented a wide cross section of society: they were not disproportionately urban or rural, nor were they significantly more or less likely than other members of society to be from the working class, middle class, or professional ranks. Klansmen were Protestants, of course, but they cannot be described exclusively or even predominately as fundamentalists. In reality, their religious affiliations mirrored the whole of white Protestant society, including those who did not belong to any church.
The Klan was successful in recruiting throughout the country and in Canada, but the membership turned over rapidly, and since the Klan was a secret society, it is difficult to determine accurate membership numbers.
This Klan was operated as a profit-making venture by its leaders, and participated in the boom in fraternal organizations at the time. Organizers signed up hundreds of new members, who paid initiation fees and bought KKK costumes. The organizer kept half the money and sent the rest to state or national officials. When the organizer was done with an area, he organized a huge rally, often with burning crosses and perhaps a ceremonial presentation of a Bible to a local Protestant minister. "
http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/kkk1.html
The fact that you are willing to lie about something doesn't make it true.
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