It amazes me that the Klan and the Democratic party were so closely related. The Klan used intimidation to make sure blacks and other republican supporters would not show up on election day. However their intimidation tactics only lasted so long until the federal government stepped in and passed laws against the klan that would suspend habeus corpus. I always believed that the Klan was originally a racist group started because of the lose of the civil war and the laws passed making blacks their civil equal. I never knew that it had so much political background.