What I’m Reading: The Second Coming of the KKK – 24 in a series – “Rome fell because she mixed her blood.”

“The Klan also built emotional abhorrence of “race mixing,” an obsession built in part through titillating and sexually suggestive rhetoric. Classical Greek culture “receded as a result of absorption of the blood of colored races,” and “Rome fell because she mixed her blood.””

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

What I'm Reading: The Second Coming of the KKK - 1 in a series

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