Originally Posted by k0nr4d

...wasn't the KKK basically spawned by the democratic party?

"The first Klan flourished in the Southern United States in the late 1860s, then died out by the early 1870s. It sought to overthrow the Republican state governments in the South during the Reconstruction Era, especially by using violence against African American leaders."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan