candidly announced that genuine democracy would impede the Klan's goals. "The Nordic can easily survive and rule," Evans explained, "if he holds for himself the advantages" secured by his forefathers. His supremacy would be lost, however, "if he surrenders those advantages" to immigrants and their children. The "Klansman's Creed" thus declared, "I believe my rights in this country are superior to those of foreigners."46 African Americans and immigrants were thus the most immediate and aggrieved victims of what by the Klan's own admission was a wider attack on democracy conducted in defense of
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