Most Klan coercion in the twenties targeted fellow native white Protestants

Evidence

The significant fact was that the crusading, evangelical spirit behind the Klan turned it into a general instrument for moral regulation. Quite possibly (since it centered in areas where its foreign and Catholic enemies constituted only a small minority), most of the Klan’s coercions affected other native white Protestants. Certainly it differed from prewar nativist societies not only in embracing a variety of xenophobias but also in ranging far beyond nativistic limits. Somewhat like the wartime American Protective League, the Klan watched everybody. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1774

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to reader’s research: the manufactured-enemy category overflows onto actual group members when threat is thin on the ground. — connects to: Reconstructed Klan fused racial and national loyalties rather than sectional white supremacy — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1737; Sundown towns existed in Southern California and were enforced by the Klan. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 1181

Broader Connections

• Sundown towns existed in Southern California and were enforced by the Klan. #exemplifies (0.78) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1181