Wrong, fuzzylogic.  Boy did you pick the right log-in name.  The Democrat Party was never affiliated with the KKK and history has proven that fact.  Yes, there were MEMBERS of the KKK that were Democrats but that's a far cry from saying it was the Democrat Party that originated the KKK.  Since those early days, all of the KKK members have since switched to the Republican Party.  It's laughable that Strom Thurmond was a KKKer and he impregnated one of his families house slaves, even fell in love with her.  Storm secretly accepted and embraced his black daughter.  He even paid for all of the college.  One of his grandson's became a doctor and Strom even paid for his medical training.  There's no doubt that Strom supporters knew about his black daughter and his black grandchildren, but that didn't matter.  Supporters kept sending him back to Congress until he finally dropped dead.