>The Klan's body count exceeds William's by several orders of magnitude.
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>Yes. And the Klan was a left wing organization. You don't mention that very much, do you?
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>The first Ku Klux Klan flourished in the Southern United States in the late 1860s. It sought to overthrow the Republican state governments in the South during the Reconstruction Era, especially by using violence against African American leaders.

I have, in fact, pointed out several times here that the Jim Crow era was created and maintained by Democrats from, as you point out, the 1860's until LBJ passed the civil rights legislation during the 1960's.
Since then, the racists in the south have almost exclusively supported Republicans.