What I’m Reading: The Second Coming of the KKK – 9 in a series – “…melding racism and ethnic bigotry with evangelical Protestant morality.”

“But the old Klan’s “white” supremacy over blacks was no longer up to the task; only the supremacy of Anglo-Saxon Protestants, aka “100% Americans,” could save the country. “The Anglo-Saxon is the typeman of history. To him must yield the self-centered Hebrew, the cultured Greek, the virile Roman, the mystic Oriental.” 14 The second Klan took off by melding racism and ethnic bigotry with evangelical Protestant morality.”

The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition by Linda Gordon

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