“And 95 per cent of the persons who sought to line up with the Ku Klux Klan were women. Why not?…The Klan stands for the things women hold most dear.” Tyler may have been exaggerating about her correspondence, though it’s impossible to say to what extent. What mattered was that she was projecting strength and esprit de corps. She wanted women reading the article to believe that the Klan was respectable, powerful, even progressive.
