Reconstructed Klan fused racial and national loyalties rather than sectional white supremacy

Evidence

More importantly, it differed from the first Klan in being an avowedly patriotic fraternal order. Apparently the Colonel did not begin with an overtly nativist program, but his venture reflected a strong nationalist impulse. It embodied the twentieth century fusion of primitive race-feelings with Anglo-Saxon nationalism. The nineteenth century Klan, a product of sectional strife, had championed white supremacy (and white supremacy only) at a time when southern race-feelings clashed directly with nationalism. The new Klan reflected the coalescence of racial and national loyalties. Simmons’ organization dramatized what the more diffuse movements of the early twentieth century had already revealed: the South was pushing into the forefront of American nativism. Thus in contrast to the first Klan, which admitted white men of every type and background, the second Klan accepted only native-born Protestant whites and combined an anti- Negro with an increasingly anti-foreign outlook. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1737

Categorization

• XREF: Directly evidences the reader’s theoretical claim that the manufactured ‘enemy’ category migrates across targets — here from race to nation — rather than resting on any primordial identity. — connects to: Groups become White by renouncing cultural difference and proving state loyalty; The new right replaced racial supremacy with cultural uniformity under nationalism — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 130; Most Klan coercion in the twenties targeted fellow native white Protestants — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1774
• DEEPTHINKING: The observation that the first Klan’s white supremacy was sectional and CLASHED with nationalism, while the second Klan’s fused with it, captures precisely how an enemy category gets reworked to serve a new solidarity structure.
• ADDENDUM: Supports the manufactured-threat research thread: the shift from race-only to race-plus-nation shows solidarity can re-target when the original threat basis no longer holds.

Broader Connections

• Groups become White by renouncing cultural difference and proving state loyalty #qualifies (0.85)
• The new right replaced racial supremacy with cultural uniformity under nationalism #expands (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 130
• Most Klan coercion in the twenties targeted fellow native white Protestants #corroborates (0.78) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1774