This is a study of a disturbing phenomenon in American society --
the Ku Klux Klan -- and that eruption of nativism, racism and moral
authoritarianism during the 1920s in the four states of the
Southwest -- Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas -- in which
the Klan became especially powerful. The hooded order is viewed
here as a move by frustrated Americans, through anonymous acts of
terror and violence, and later through politics), to halt a
changing social order and restore familiar orthodox traditions of
morality. Entering the Southwest during the post-World War I period
of discontent and disillusion, the Klan spread rapidly over the
region and by 1922 its tens of thousands of members had made it a
potent force in politics. Charles C. Alexander finds that the Klan
in the Southwest, however, functioned more as vigilantes in meting
extra-legal punishment to those it deemed moral offenders than as
advocates of race and religious prejudice. But the vigilante
hysteria vanished almost as suddenly as it had appeared; opposition
to its terrorist excesses and its secret politics led to its
decline after 1924, when the Klan failed abysmally in most of its
political efforts. Especially significant here are the analysis of
attitudes which led to this revival of the Klan and the close
examination of its internal machinations.
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