The Ku Klux Klan targeted Republicans primarily because they were associated with Reconstruction efforts in the post-Civil War South, which aimed to extend civil rights to African Americans and secure political power for the Republican Party. Many Republicans, particularly those who supported racial equality and integration, were seen as threats to the Klan's white supremacist agenda. The Klan sought to intimidate and suppress Republican voters, particularly African Americans and their allies, through violence and terror to maintain white dominance and control in Southern society.
Because Republicans supported the rights of Blacks.
Protestant Christianity
Some of the methods of the KKK were violence and threats against black people and white republicans.
Blacks, Republicans, Jews, Catholics, moonshiners, bootleggers, and immigrants.
it was accepted
Actual lynching by the KKK is very rare nowdays, but it was done often in the reconstruction era to intimidate Republicans into not voting.
Jews, Catholics, Immigrants and African Americans were among the groups the KKK targeted.
Blacks, Republicans, Jews, Catholics, immigrants, and opponents of National Prohibition.
KKK, Ku Klux Klan opposed African-Americans, Jews, Catholics, and Immigrants.They oppose the NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Basically, they don't like anything that's colored.
Blacks, Republicans, Communists, Jews, Catholics, immigrants, and opponents of National Prohibition.
The KKK sometimes attacked African Americans, moonshiners, Republicans, bootleggers, Jews, and Catholics.
Because the Confederacy lost and naturally some didn't like it so they targeted former slaves