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Nor were there activists that would threaten the established culture. So the Klan settled on an anti-Catholic program with a particular focus on schools and education. The Klan viewed Roman Catholics as invariably disloyal to the United States because their allegiance was to a "foreign power"- the Pope. In both Lane County and at the state level, they promoted a "Compulsory School Bill" which mandated all children of elementary school age attend public schools, thus prohibiting attendance at, or support for, Catholic parochial schools. Oregon voters approved the measure by a narrow margin in Nov 1922. The US Supreme Court ruled the measure unconstitutional in Jan 1925
Both at the state and local level the Klan began to disintegrate around 1925. One reason was the resurgence of the economy, one was power struggles in the organization and a third was the release of name after a police raid at the Klan's Pacific headquarters in LA. 

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