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Not My Constitution
Written to Serve Rich, White Men
White supremacists have leaders and followers with entirely different agendas. The leaders have economic goals that can only be accomplished by mobilizing the masses. The followers are filled with resentment, hatred, and jealousy. They think someone is taking something from them that is rightfully theirs. The Klan in times past was more of a grassroots organization. There were hundreds of local chapters, (Klaverns) that had loose relationships with a national body. The Klan today is more top-down driven with the followers mimicking official policy without always being able to articulate why.
My definition of the Klan is admittedly broad. Historically, most of the hundreds of Klan organizations at least had the word Klan in their name. They were joined by organizations like the Knights of the White Camelia and the White League. Many current organizations try to downplay the current size of the movement. They would tell you only a few thousand Klan members are remaining and they are dying out. They would ignore the thousands of organizations with millions of members with the same agenda. In my view; the Proud Boys, the Boogaloo Bois, Oath keepers, and others are all the Klan, though they might despise being linked to their low-class brethren.
