@Frugal1,
That's absolute rot. The KKK was started by Nathan Bedcford Forrest and a cadre of diehard Confederates to terrorise and disenfranchise freed black citizens. They were the conservatives of their day. The Repiublicans sold out their anti-slsvery roots in the Compromise of 1876, which doomed Reconstruction, another time the dElectoral College fucked the countrgy. When the Dems pu ex hed the CivilRights and Voting Rights Acts of 1965, and Nixon psed his Souther Strategy, the segregationists flocke to the GOPwhere they remained.5