Brads Final Thoughtss 
The Myth of the Party Switch
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The Origins of the Republican Party
The Republican Party was formed in 1854, primarily to oppose the expansion of slavery into western U.S. territories.
The Founding of the Ku Klux Klan
The KKK was founded by Democrats.
The KKK was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee in 1865 by 6 former Confederate officers. All were ex-Confederate Democrats who opposed Reconstruction and Republican rule. In the South at that time, there was effectively only one party for white Southerners — the Democratic Party.
The KKK and Democratic Political Power During Reconstruction
The KKK functioned as the terrorist wing of the Democratic Party during Reconstruction.
Historians document this as fact. Eric Foner and other Reconstruction scholars describe the first Klan as the militant arm used to restore Democratic political control by terrorizing Black voters and white Republicans. Its goals were Black Americans from voting Republican.
Overthrow Republican Reconstruction governments in the South.
Restore Democratic control.
Thousands of murders and intimidation campaigns led directly to Democrats regaining power across the South by 1877.
The Second Klan and the Democratic Party
Second Klan revival was again aligned with Democrats.
At its peak in the 1920s, the Klan controlled governorships and legislatures. The 1924 Democratic National Convention is known as the “Klanbake” because the Klan played such a large role. Hundreds of delegates were Klansmen.
Senator Robert Byrd and the KKK
Longest-serving Democrat in Congress was a KKK leader.
Sen. Robert Byrd, D-West Virginia, was an Exalted Cyclops / Kleagle who recruited 150 members. He filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act for 14 hours. He served as a Democrat until 2010 and was eulogized by Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton.
Other Democratic Leaders and Segregation
Other examples Sen. Sam Ervin, D-NC — defended segregation.
Gov. George Wallace, D-AL – “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever” Sen. J. William Fulbright, D-AR — signed Southern Manifesto, opposed Civil Rights Acts.
The Core Ideology of the KKK
The core KKK / AKKK ideology was: Racial hierarchy and identity politics — judging people by race first.
Segregation and separation.
Using government power to enforce racial outcomes.
Suppressing dissent and speech it disagreed with.
Belief that America is fundamentally racist and must be remade.
Comparing Historical and Modern Political Ideologies
The argument that Democrats still support the same ideology today is made by pointing to Race-first politics: KKK judged by skin color. Modern left’s equity/DEI framework also explicitly judges, sorts, and assigns outcomes by skin color instead of colorblind equality.
Segregation: KKK wanted separation of races. Modern calls for safe spaces, segregated graduations, and race-specific programs are a form of neo-segregation.
Collective guilt: KKK believed in collective racial guilt. Modern ideology teaches that all white people are inherently privileged/oppressors.
Intimidation for political power: KKK used intimidation to stop people from voting and speaking. The argument is that cancel culture, doxxing, and deplatforming now serve the same function to silence opposition.
The Argument Against the Party Switch
The party switch is a myth. The Democratic Party still holds the same core ideology, just repackaged for the modern era.
The same party that once defended slavery now defends illegal labor exploitation. When Democrats ask, “Who’s going to pick your crops?” they are advocating for a permanent underclass of cheap, exploitable labor with no rights — the textbook definition of modern-day slave labor, and it hurts illegal aliens the most.
So why invent the party switch myth? Because history was a liability they had to shed.
The First Black Republicans in Congress
The first 23 Black men in Congress were all Republicans. Hiram Revels, the first Black U.S. Senator in 1870, was a Republican. The first 26 Black members of government overall were Republicans. Democrats didn’t elect a Black member to Congress until 1935.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 — Congressional Voting Records
Voting records disprove the switch. The 1964 Civil Rights Act: 80% of House Republicans voted yes vs. 63% of House Democrats. In the Senate: 82% of Republicans vs. 69% of Democrats. The opposition came from the Dixiecrats — Democrats like Al Gore Sr., Robert Byrd (former KKK Exalted Cyclops), and J. William Fulbright, who filibustered it.
Strom Thurmond and the Dixiecrats
Only ONE Dixiecrat switched parties. Of the 21 Democratic senators who opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, only one — Strom Thurmond — became a Republican. The rest remained Democrats for life and were celebrated by the party.
Lyndon Johnson, the Great Society, and Political Strategy
The strategy was manipulation, not a switch. As LBJ himself understood after the Civil Rights Act, the party needed a new voting bloc. The Great Society created government dependency to replace the plantation with the welfare state — trading physical chains for economic ones while keeping the same power structure.
The Six Original Founders of the Ku Klux Klan
The first 6 founders — John Lester, John B. Kennedy, James Crowe, Calvin Jones, Richard Reed, and Frank McCord — started the KKK in Pulaski, Tennessee in December 1865 as a social club. They didn’t personally carry out recorded lynchings as “the 6,” but the organization they created immediately turned into a terrorist group, and here is one of the earliest true, documented cases from the Klan they founded:
The Murder of George Ashburn — March 31, 1868
The murder of Union veteran George Ashburn — Columbus, Georgia, March 31, 1868
George Ashburn was a white Unionist and former slave owner who had become a Radical Republican after the war. He moved to Columbus to organize Black voters and help establish the Republican Party in Georgia. He was helping register newly freed Black men to vote.
At 2 a.m., a group of about 30 disguised Klansmen — members of the organization the original 6 created and spread across Tennessee and Georgia — broke into his home. He was dragged from his room and murdered in front of his family. His murder was part of a coordinated Klan campaign in 1868 to eliminate Republican organizers and stop Black people from voting.
Congressional Investigation Into the Ashburn Murder
The case went to a Congressional investigation in 1868. Witnesses testified that the local Klan was directly responsible, and that its stated purpose was to “keep the negro from voting Republican and to restore the Democratic Party to power.”
This was the pattern for the First Klan: it wasn’t random hate crimes. It was targeted political assassination to reverse the results of the Civil War and put the Democratic Party back in control of the South.
Final Thoughts — Questioning the Party Switch Narrative
They had to create the myth of the switch to weaponize the label of “racist” — a label that rightfully belonged to them — and use it against the party that actually freed the slaves. Stop falling for the democrats. If you read this and can’t disprove any of it, then it’s time to ask yourself the question: Did I fall for a lie? And even more importantly — are you truly woke yet?
Three historical sources
- National Park Service — Ku Klux Klan History — Origins of the KKK, Reconstruction-era violence, and its 20th-century revival. National Park Service
- U.S. Senate Historical Office — Civil Rights Act of 1964 — The legislative history, filibuster, bipartisan coalition, and Senate voting record. U.S. Senate
- OpenStax — The Two-Party System — The historical development and realignment of the Republican and Democratic coalitions. OpenStax
Author: Brads Final Thoughtss
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