the 2012 trivial drivel thread

[Cracker]

I will pray long and hard for you tonight.

I'm not an expert on Klan history, but they started for a good reason, believe it or not.

After the Civil War, the North had several factions (or parties, I guess) that included the Liberal Republicans (Lincoln), the Radical Republicans (Andrew Johnson), and the Democrats (Tilden). Many post Civil War Democrats were sympathetic to the South (they called them Copperheads) and wanted to restore the allegiance tested by the Civil War.

Lincoln outlined his Reconstruction plan (The Ten Percent plan) that forced succession states to redraft their state constitutions and required 10% of the citizens of the state to pledge allegiance to the US. The Radical Republicans wanted to punish the South by breaking it into five regions that were to be controlled by the military, not allow white men (ex Confederates) to hold office or vote, and require 50% of the citizens of a state to swear allegiance. Oh, and they wanted to take away the land from white owners and give it to the slaves. (We accomplished that last year, I think, with public housing.)

The KKK was started in TN to stop the Radical Republicans. I can understand that. What happened after that is the more popular version of the KKK.

History is enlightening. The KKK was a political organization. Honestly, I wish everybody couldn't vote. Dumbasses.