Hey Gerald, I literally posted the words of the guys that founded the KKK. Whatever crowdsourced knowledge you have of the subject means nothing compared to the people that founded it.

You can attempt to move goalposts or walk back what you said, or make it sound like we can't know what you know because reasons, but I have posted direct quotes by those that founded the KKK that refute your idea that it was a mostly anti-carpetbagger movement.

This is not about belief, you are making this an issue of personal choice. I will repost it so maybe you can understand....

" Dressed up in scary costumes with hoods and masks, members rode about at night threatening and frightening blacks. They demanded that blacks either vote Democrat or not vote at all. They met defiance with beatings, whippings and sometimes murder. They burned blacks’ houses down and drove black farmers off their land...."

You assert they were not as racist as anti-northern. This refutes that. No more goalpost moving.