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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nathan Bedford Forrest joined the Ku Klux Klan, apparently in 1867, two years after its founding, and was elected its first Grand Wizard. The group was a loose collection of local groups that used violence and the threat of violence to maintain white control over the newly-enfranchised slaves. While Forrest was a Klan leader, during the elections of 1868, the Klan suppressed voting rights of blacks and Republicans in the South through violence and intimidation.

The Klan's activity infiltrated the Democrat's campaign for the presidential election of 1868. Prominent ex-Confederates, including Forrest, the Grand Wizard of the Klan, and South Carolina's Wade Hampton, attended as delegates at the 1868 Democratic Convention, held at Tammany Hall headquarters at 141 East 14th Street in New York City

During the presidential election of 1868, the Ku Klux Klan under the leadership of Forrest, and other terrorist groups, used brutal violence and intimidation against blacks and Republican voters.

The Republicans had nominated one of Forrest's battle adversaries, Union war hero Ulysses S. Grant, for the Presidency at their convention held in October. Klansmen took their orders from their former Confederate officers.[165] In Kansas, there were over 2,000 murders committed to suppress blacks and Republicans from voting. In Georgia, Republicans and blacks received threats and beatings at a higher rate. In Louisiana, 1,000 blacks were killed to suppress Republican voting. The Klan's violence was primarily designed to intimidate voters, targeting black and white supporters of the Republican Party.

The first grand wizard of KKK was a Democrat and served in office as a dem.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Bedford_Forrest[/quote]

Thank you very much for this documentation. [/quote]

It’s all online: the founders of the klan were Democrats and they were elected and served as democrats. They killed ALOT of republicans, as well as black and catholic people.[/quote]

They were simply the republicans of the time. Then they switched parties later. It's accurate to say it was created by republicans because those same people would be republicans today. [/quote]

Exactly.  [/quote]

Lincoln would be appalled by the modern-day GOP.

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MAGA hats are 21st century KKK hoods.  We all know it.[/quote]

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