The purpose of Klan violence was “by force and terror to prevent all political action not in accord with the views of the members, to deprive colored citizens of the right to bear arms and the right of a free ballot, to suppress schools in which colored children were taught, and to reduce the colored people to a condition closely akin to that of slavery.” The Klansmen stated as much: The Klan had been organized for the “killing and whipping and crowding out men from the ballot boxes …
to advance the Conservative party and put down the Republican party.”
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The KKK has always been a conservative organization. Therefore, today's Republican Party is the party of the KKK. This is why right-wing Republicans continue trying to talk about the Democrats past association with the KKK. That past existed when Democrats were the conservative party. Democrats are no longer the conservative party.