"Historically, this has been women, Jews, blacks, Hispanics and LGBT."

And Catholics, too! As historian John McGreevy points out in his latest book, AMERICAN JESUITS AND THE WORLD (Princeton University Press, 2016): The Republican Party's anti-slavery program was coupled with an anti-Catholic one. The KKK targeted three groups, especially in the South: Blacks, Jews and Catholics. Can one forget Lyman Beecher's son, Edward, a well known educator and abolitionist, who, like his father, used to weekly sermon to warn his listeners of a Catholic conspiracy and one time even donated 4,000 dollars to fight "popery."  One of his anti-Catholic talks led to a crowd to burn down Boston's Ursuline Convent, with the local fire dept. refusing to respond to put out the fire.