"War profiteers"?? Is that it?? I take it you were not rise in the south, deadsmoke. From what I was told and read, "carpetbagger" is anyone from the North, trying to upset the racial social order in the south after the war. Now I never wrote that KKK didn't harm black people. Their targets were people who were upsetting the social order. These are mostly white Northerners trying to get blacks to vote, educate them, trying to ensure their rights or even to better themselves. Any blacks adhering to these ideals, were targeted as well. Now these white Northerners, are outnumbered, their black followers often take the hits. This is more then just war profiteers although they existed and targeted. Freedman's Bureau, white educators and just about anyone who were advocating for blacks' rights, were targeted. Their numbers were not high as the blacks but their existence was the reason for the Klan's initial existence.