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Byrd certainly changed his public stance but we'll never know how he genuinely felt. He was certainly never public about his KKK involvement either until it became exposed. It never made any difference to his membership in the Democratic Party or his rise to power.
He should have just been buried. Seems to be a great deal of hypocrisy by honoring a known high ranking KKK member like Robert Byrd while tearing down statues of other people who fought on the losing side in the Civil War.
To be fair, by the time he died, he had not been in the klan for an awfully long time.
Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black had been in the klan too, and he was one of the Supreme Court's strongest advocates for civil rights.