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Part One: The Birth of the Ku Klux Klan

Behind the Bastards

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The KKK - Who Clocks Klans?

The KKK spread like wildfire during 1868 and eventually into every former Confederate state as well as Kentucky. South Carolina, the first state to secede had the highest clan membership per capita. Many of them were just poor guys who were like, everyone else in town has joined and we're gonna get shot at. It was the south in 1860 that counts as woke.

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