Thanks for the question, and I deserve to have to try and answer it.
So, you got me- I should take it back that they just let Republicans off the hook- as you are right that the Democrats have let some of theirs off the hook too.
Can't change the past- But we can do a better job in the future!
I don't try to defend Robert Byrd, as I already know that he had a racist background, and should never have been seated in Congress.
But he was elected back in 1952! Back when it was supposed to be cool to be in the KKK- and they didn't mind having Democrats alongside the Republicans as members!
How he survived in the senate for 52 years is beyond me!
Here is a list of politicians that were associated with the KKK at one time or another:
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1 Politicians who were active in the Klan at some time
1.1 Robert Byrd
1.2 Edward Douglass White
1.3 Hugo Black
1.4 Theodore G. Bilbo
1.5 John Brown Gordon
1.6 Joseph E. Brown
1.7 Elmer David Davies
1.8 Edward L. Jackson
1.9 Rice W. Means
1.10 Clarence Morley
1.11 Bibb Graves
1.12 Clifford Walker
1.13 George Gordon
1.14 John Tyler Morgan
1.15 Edmund Pettus
1.16 John W. Morton
1.17 William L. Saunders
1.18 John Clinton Porter
1.19 Benjamin F. Stapleton
1.20 David Duke
2 Alleged members of the Klan
2.1 Warren G. Harding
2.2 Harry S. Truman
