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====Second Klan (1915-1944)====
The second Klan was founded atop Stone Mountain, [[File:Cball-Georgia (US state).png]] Georgia by [[File:ChristNat.png]] [[Religious Nationalism#Christian Nationalism|William Joseph Simmons]] in 1915. The revived Klan adopted the white costume and cross burning, both of which have become associated with the organization in addition to the usage of K-words which were similar to those used by the first Klan. While it relied on documents and surviving elders from the first Klan, the second Klan was heavily inspired by the wildly popular film ''The Birth of a Nation'', a film that depicted [[File:AfricanAmerican.png]] African Americans as villains and the Klan as the heroes.
Unlike its predecessor, the second Klan had organizational structures at the national and state level. By the mid-1920s, membership peaked at over 3 million.
While the second Klan, like its 19th-century predecessor, targeted [[File:Blacknat.png]] Black people, it also campaigned against [[File:Jew.png]] Jews, [[File:Catheo.png]] [[Catholic Theocracy|Catholics]], [[File:Gay.png]] LGBT people, [[File:Commie.png]] [[Marxism|Communists]], and [[File:Multicult.png]] most immigrants, including, but not limited to, the [[File:Cball-Ireland.png]] Irish, [[File:Cball-Italy.png]] Italians, [[File:Cball-Portugal.png]] Portuguese, [[File:Cball-Greece.png]] Greeks, [[File:Cball-Spain.png]] Spanish, [[File:Cball-Mexico.png]] Mexicans, [[File:Cball-Russian_Empire.png]] Russians/[[File:Cball-USSR.png]] Soviets, and any nationality from [[File:PanAsian.png]] Asia or [[File:Cball-AfricanUnion.png]] Africa while supporting immigration from [[File:Cball-UK.png]] the United Kingdom, particularly from [[File:Cball-England.png]] England, successfully lobbying in favor of the Emergency Quota Act, which capped the number of immigrants admitted from any country per year to 3% of the number of residents living in the U.S. as of the 1910 Census, as well as the Immigration Act of 1924, which banned nearly all immigration from [[File:PanAsian.png]] Asia and set quotas on the number of immigrants from other nations, favoring those from [[File:Cball-EU.png]] Northern and Western Europe. They also advocated for [[File:Prohib.png]] prohibition and [[File:Isolationist.png]] non-interventionism.
By the 1920s, the majority of its members lived in the Midwest and West, including nearly 20% of [[File:Cball-Indiana.png]] Indiana's population. In the South, members were staunch [[File:Demcr.png]] Democrats. In the rest of the country, Klansmen included both [[File:Demcr.png]] Democrats and [[File:RepubUS.png]] Republicans, as well as independents. Several politicians affiliated with the Klan have taken office such as [[File:Cball-CSA.png]] [[Confederalism|John Brown Gordon]], [[File:Plcn2.png]] [[Paleoconservatism|Rufus C. Holman]], and [[File:Fiscon.png]] [[Fiscal Conservatism|Willian Bliss Pine]]. Some politicians who were not members also received support from the Klan.
In 1925, [[File:Fem.png]] Madge Oberholtzer, a white woman, was murdered by [[File:KKKf.png]] [[Kleptocracy|D.C. Stephenson]], Grand Dragon of the Indiana chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. The brutal attack outraged most members of the Indiana Klan and left the organization en masse. By 1930, Klan membership dropped to around 30,000, and by the 1940s, the second Klan collapsed, due to the IRS levying a massive tax liability against the organization.
The second Klan was less violent than both the first and third Klans, though it was not entirely non-violent, especially in the South. The most violent chapter was the one in Dallas, [[File:Cball-Texas.png]] Texas. In April 1921, the Dallas Klan kidnapped [[File:AfricanAmerican.png]] Alex Johnson, a black man accused of sexual activity with a white woman. They branded the letters "KKK" on his forehead and severely beat him near a riverbed. The [[File:WhitePolice.png]] police chief and district [[File:Krit.png]] district attorney refused to prosecute, arguing that Johnson deserved the treatment. Encouraged by public approval, the Dallas KKK whipped 68 people in 1922 alone. Although Johnson was black, most of the Dallas KKK's whipping victims were white men who were accused of offenses against their wives such as adultery, extramarital affairs, wife beating, abandoning their wives, gambling, or refusing to pay child support. The Dallas Klan often invited journalists to attend the whippings so they could write articles about them in the following day's newspaper. Another notable violent Klan was the [[File:Cball-Alabama.png]] Alabama chapter which was less chivalrous than the Dallas chapter. This chapter was known for whipping both black and white women who were accused of fornication, adultery, or [[File:Lesbian.png]] homosexuality. Although many [[File:Cball-Alabama.png]] Alabamans were outraged by the whippings of [[File:WhiteFem.png]] white women, no [[File:KKKf.png]] Klansmen were ever convicted of the violence. In 1937, the Klan raided La Paloma nightclub due to the nightclub supporting the [[File:Gay.png]] LGBT+ community. Around 200 "night riders" walked into the nightclub and began demolishing furniture, attacked employees, threatened to burn the building down, and ordered everyone to leave the club. Shortly after the Ku Klux Klan raid, Dade County Sheriff [[File:PolState.png]] [[Police Statism|David Coleman]] described the nightclub as a "menace" and promised to keep it indefinitely closed. Coleman ordered the nightclub to cease operations and ordered a police raid there two weeks later. Despite this, La Paloma reopened within weeks and a skit was performed that featured performers [[File:Honk.png]] [[Satirism|satirizing]] the Klan raid and donning [[File:KKKf.png]] white hoods.