Although it is relatively unreported today, historical documents are unequivocal that the Klan was established by Democrats and that the Klan played a prominent role in the Democratic Party.147 In fact, a thirteen-volume set of congressional investigations from 1872148 conclusively and irrefutably documents that fact.149 Contributing to the evidences was the 1871 appearance before Congress of leading South Carolina Democrat E. W. Seibels who testified that “they [the Ku Klux Klan] belong to
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