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The KKK: White Supremacy, Xenophobia, Christianity - Coggle Diagram
The KKK: White Supremacy, Xenophobia, Christianity
White Supremacy
"Simmons believed these Southern Klansmen triumphed against the supposed evils of Reconstruction in the South by affirming white supremacy and racial order"
"The burning cross atop Stone Mountain marked the beginning of the second Klan’s fight to save America as a nation for only white Protestants"
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"These artifacts communicated the order’s ideals—Christianity, white supremacy, and patriotism—as well as their vision of America as a nation created and maintained solely for white Protestants"
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" The uniforms evoked the ghosts of the Confederate dead, and Klansmen employed them to terrify African Americans and sympathetic white people."
"The Klan claimed that if the uniform terrified, it was only because the robes and mask conjured images of Christianity, Americanism, and white supremacy. The enemies of nation, particularly the Klan’s vision of the nation, would have rightly felt terror upon glimpsing the hooded Klansmen because of what they stood for"
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“The rhetoric they have of nation and state, that hides white supremacy...sets up other movements of understanding patriotism and faith while very much not being about equality"
Christianity
"Simmons watched as each “big problem” in 'American life” shifted across the celestial map, and he 'fell to his knees and offered a prayer to God'
"His religious visions...led Simmons to create the second Klan, a fraternity dedicated not only to white supremacy and social order but also nationalism and religious faith."
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The KKK "pledged allegiance to the U.S. Constitution, American ideals, and 'the tenets of the Christian religion'"
"The color of the robes displayed the requirements for membership: white, Protestant, and “native-born” American, all rendered as white."
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"The uniforms personified this dichotomy;...the robes manifested spiritual purity, conceptions of Protestant love, equality, and assimilation as well as terror and exclusion."
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"Evans and his Klan hoped to protect faith and race to preserve their version fo America, the only one they considered actually legitimate"
“For them [KKK], faith and nation were remarkably intertwined...that God had favored...white people in America”
Xenophobia
"They claimed that Catholics, Jews, immigrants, and African Americans were all threats to the nation."
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"The changing social climate in the U.S., including immigration, urbanization and the migration of African Americans, made the Klan’s white, patriotic and Protestant message appealing to white men and white women."
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The Klan's "popular nativism was a backlash to the changing demographics and changing culture of the nation"
"the Klan...strikes without mercy or compromise the pernicious foreign influences which are undermining liberty and seeking to dominate American institutions" (Klansman qtd. by Baker)
"The flag, a symbol of America, was instead the symbol of one version of the nation, in which intolerance was a virtue and any diversity was suspect."
The Klan "attempted to control portrayals of nation and nationhood to guarantee the cultural and political dominance of white Protestants"
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