The Ku Klux Klan did not exist in 1840. It arose in response to perceived abuses and injustices during Reconstruction after the Civil War.
Thank you. You are quite right.
I wasn’t thinking.
I’m rather surprised I didn’t catch that on the way out...
The Klan was a Democrat insurgency in the South after the Civil War.
To put it in the terms of the Iraq war, it took 100 years to end the Civil War.