Yup, those Klansmen and Klanswomen were/are Dems. Puzzles the Hell out of me why blacks go for the Democrat party as they do.
I doubt a newspaper in the country would have covered for a Republican KKK member for forty years...
Anyone who has doubts can research the mastheads of Southern racist Newspapers... the same folks were in the mastheads beginning, middle and end of the civil rights movement. They started as democrats and ended as democrats.