Klan recruiters merged corruption skills with appeal to rural masses

Evidence

The tremendous midwestern expansion in 1923 threw a new demagogue into the limelight and opened another chapter in the struggle within the Klan. D. C. Stephenson emerged as the dominant figure in the northern Klans. He could corrupt a legislator as effectively as he could organize a membership drive, and with equal ease he could convince the rural masses that the President of the United States was leaning on him for advice. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1794

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Klan expansion self-corrupted through profit-driven leadership from the start

Broader Connections

• Klan expansion self-corrupted through profit-driven leadership from the start #corroborates (0.85)