> the KKK was entirely aligned with democrat party

You might be interested to look a bit more at the history of the parties and how their conservative/progressive tendencies wax and wane over time. Saying the KKK was aligned with Democrats as not helpful without context of time.

Kevin Kruse (https://mobile.twitter.com/KevinMKruse) writes a lot about this, which is how I learned that in days gone by, I would have despised the state of the Democrats and embraced the Republicans - their policies were almost the total opposite of what you'd expect.

It's the Democratic party, there is no such thing as the democrat party.

I take it you're not at all familiar with Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy, and it's embrace of the Dixiecrats, or actually quite a lot of relevant American political history

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwa...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

right... in 1872...

I never mentioned any political parties, but ideology. The social order was slavery and racism, and people that wanted to conserve it were conservatives.