The modern Klan rejected modernism—the world was spinning too fast, and they didn’t like it one bit. When President Warren Harding, a man of refined mediocrity, was elected in 1920, he’d promised a “return to normalcy.” But the twenties were anything but normal, especially among young adults. “Here was a new generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken,” wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald. The buildings were taller, the stocks higher, the cars faster, the parties gaudier and more excessive. People threw off the cultural remnants of the nineteenth century with
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