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The KKK was the paramilitary arm of the Democratic Party during the Reconstruction years in the South. Seriously. Famous KKK alumni include: Sen. Robert Byrd (D), President Harry Truman (D), Hugo Black (D - FDR appointee to SCOTUS), etc etc.

KKK sympathizer: President Woodrow Wilson (D). He liked the Klan so much, he wrote the dedicatory text for one of the most racist flicks ever to grace the cinema screen: Griffith's Birth of a Nation.