Reply #5: Because Hating 'Commies', Ma'am, Became The Test Of That [View All]

[The Magistrate]

The Klan, the true expression of Southern white sentiment from reconstruction, began wrapping itself in 'patriotism' in its early twentieth century revival, when left ideas began to be deliberately blurred with 'foreign influences'. And during the twenties and thirties, Communists in the U.S. were in fact the leading supplier of lawyers and speakers against lynch law and such rail-roadings as the 'Scottsboro Boys' case, so it was a tune these vicious racists learned to sing with feeling.

Good Democrats today down there, Ma'am, have my deepest sympathy, but the treasonous rebellion was never properly dealt with, and we pay for it daily.