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Not that it matters to your fantasies, but I don't support "the Lost Cause." I' m correcting you on points of the history that you're getting wrong all the time, conflating groups with separate agendas because it gives you some illusion of superiority.
Yes, some former slaveholders joined the KKK, but some KKK members never owned slaves; they just wanted to keep black people down. Neither that abstract goal nor the criminal means used for that purpose are in any way admirable to me. But I don't have to be a Lost Cause supporter to point out that you're garbling an important historical subject with your scattershot readings.
Except you are doing no such thing. You are spewing long debunked drivel that southerners like because it protects them from having to face the reality about what their ancestors did. You see the same sort of historical revisionism in places like Turkey and Japan.
That doesn’t make it any better ! Nor does it change the really basic historical fact that former Confederates were the backbone of th Klan.