Why did the confederates start the KKK?

Question

I know the first Klan was founded in 1865 by Tennessee veterans of the Confederate Army.
and there wizard was Nathan Bedford Forrest
but why did the start it..

Answer 1

It's all right here.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan

Answer 2

i think of Bedford Forrest became a Democrat additionally...bypass determine He served as a results of fact the 1st Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, an employer which released a "reign of terror" against blacks and white Republicans for the period of Reconstruction interior the South. State Democrats who made up the KKK was hoping to have the potential to cajole black electorate to assist their applicants with out coercion and return to the social and financial racially-tiered status quo that existed till now the conflict.

Answer 3

It was first begun by General Nathan Bedford Forrest as a social club after the War Between the States.

Answer 4

The Klan was started 45 mins west of me in Pulaski.



It was NOT started by Confederates and it was NOT meant to be a racist organization.....It just developed into one over time.



It was started as a club and turned into a group of racist individuals with a ridiculous agenda.

Answer 5

Basically it was started to run Northern Carpet Baggers out of the South, you do know that Bedord Forrest left the KKK when it changed its direction of running the Scum carpet baggers trying to take advantage of the war ravaged south out and became a racist organization.

Answer 6

You probably should go ask the longest term democrat senator Robert Byrd . A senator and KKK member since at least the 1960's

Answer 7

well, when it was started, it was more a fraternity-style group rather than a hate group. Eventually it died out, but then was restarted as a racist group at the end of the 19th Century.

Answer 8

I'm not sure. But due to a law suit, the NAACP now owns the legal rights to the name "Klu Klux Klan" in one sourthern state. Go figure.

Answer 9

we should ask the only sitting member of the Senate who was once a Grand Wizard of the KKK,...Robert Byrd, DEMOCRAT W.Virgina...





and btw it was the Democrat Party that started the civil war to preserve slavery,enacted "Jim Crow Laws" after the war,and stood in the doorways of schools in the 60's to stop integration....it is they who are racist...

Answer 10

They coon't spel Dameo... Demacr.. Deamoctr... Dimokra...

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Answer 11

It looks like you will have to "channel" ol' Nathan.

Answer 12

You should know the answer to that. IT was because the south wanted to re-instate white supremacy during the reconstruction period.

Answer 13

They wanted to protect the rights of and further the interests of white Americans by violence and intimidation they were freaking psychopaths..



AKA SKUNK-APE



Yes that was when the democrats were conservative and states rights

Answer 14

Carpetbaggers and Reconstructionists.

Answer 15

You'll have to ask republicans, many of them are Klans man. Or at least, said they are their heros.

Answer 16

My Daddy was a Klansman, so is my cousin Buford! there are only two things that run in my family, Conservatisim and the Stars & Bars! ;)