[Kansas58]

The KKK act was written to protect:

“Catholics, Republicans and Negroes” in the Reconstruction South.

The writer is not completely accurate.

[WestwardHo]

If the Catholics want to take credit for the mess we call the Grand Old Party, more power to them.

[RedMonqey]

The KKK act was written to protect: “Catholics, Republicans and Negroes” in the Reconstruction South.

That is incorrect

. Catholicism wasn't a target of the KKK until the second resurrection of the KKK(and it's peak stength) in the 1900's when it's ranks swelled with anti Catholic recriuts from northern states. Anti Catholicism was a largely Northern disease as large emmigration from the southern European(Catholic) countries that began in the mid to late 1880's, well after the passage of the KKK Act in 1871. These immigrants began swelling in the industrial cities of the North, competeing with the naive population for work.

Virtual no Catholics or anyone else imigrated to the post Civil War South as it's economy collapsed.

Anti Judaism began an target of the KKK when Eastern European populations emigrated into the U.S.