People may disagree about the historical class aspects of this to which I alluded above, but if one spends any time at all learning about KKK history in the US, one fact stands out clearly. And that is that the KKK people were fomenting hate not purely for its own sake but in order to further a political and economic agenda by preying upon people's fears-- people of all colors and classess-- in the same way referenced in a recent thread about propagandizing around other present-day fears.

This is not a new and it's not an outdated phenomenon, either; memories about the underlying MOTIVES are far shorter than the memories of the movements that were whipped up, and even those memories are relatively short.

~Susan