Could you provide a link to the TWC logo?

Additionally, you appear to be hostile to the TWC. Why?

interracial marriage-AGAINST
Going back to the texas workFORCE’S association to theis logo.
Slavery-cheap labor During Nazi occupation of Europe, there was this Nationalist party that was represented by a worker’s-like union, the same in Russia. The workers in these countries were very much “lauded or hailed as the ones who would build and make a stronger economy/ies
in these countries. Pretty much, they were “FORCED” to work.
It was very much propaganda comming from the Hitler and Stalin’s economist, politicians. The dynamics of this conservative nationalist are very apparent here. The texas workFORC CONmission is “privately owned
by some -Corporation-$$$ in North Carolina”. Someone is getting rich while
there propaganda is instilling cheap labor..the ONLY difference is, we are the good guys, we pay our employees. I picked up on their logo.
Purple Power!

Chessboxing is an original concept [1], but the 3K Movement has better melody [2].

Michael,

Apologies for the late comment! You are correct that the 20th and 19th century Klans had different constituents, goals, and histories. The KKK that operated in the post-War space of Dixie was a very different animal from the ur-Lou-Dobbs fans of the 1910s.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl6jwab3HWk&feature=related
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoIebIKNS4s

The Klan was not a military force or a military threat in that it was not designed to defeat Union soldiers in a decive battle. Rather, it was paramilitary force designed to wear down the Union's will to continue fighting. The Klan was a paramilitary threat, which is why the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 was passed to provide the legal mechanisms to fight it.

The Klan itself was military dispersed, though the victory would be hollow (as was the later British “victory” over the Boers and the American “victory” over the Viet Cong). While militarily successful, the occuping Union lost the will to fight. Enforcement of Union laws largely ended after 1876, and would not resume until President Eisenhower.

The American federalism system allowed the Southern loyalists to win a measure of independence, “home rule,” if you will. However, this partial victory put time on the side of the economically more connected side — the Union — and to the mostly bloodless reassertion of federal authority in the 1950s and 1960s.

Here's what I remember from US history class (warning, my memory is several years fuzzy, so add appropriate grains of salt). There was actually two or three Klans.

The first one, founded by Forrest, was eventually dismantled by the federal government, partly with the help of Forrest himself; he started it to continue the war, not to terrorize unarmed blacks. Unfortunately, this dismantling didn't happen before many of the their methods diffused through the Southern populace. In our terms, the Klan went open source.

In the early 20th century, a salesman who's name I forget revived the Klan as a commercial enterprise– a fraternal organisation with him at the top. He built it, added a bunch of mystical mumbo-jumbo (the Dragon/Wizard stuff) for flavor, and sold it nation-wide with anti-foreigner and anti-semitic rhetoric added to appeal to the wider audience. In doing so, though, he wound up spreading the methodology of the older Klan outside the South. The second Klan, being a legal organisation, was eventually brought down by the government through legal means, but the methods are still out there, being used by other White Supremacist groups including remnant Klan groups.

As Al Qaeda evolved from a single organization into a brand of techniques available to the hateful, so the Klan evolved. And while the government occasionally fights the current Klan groups, when one of them is dumb enough to pick a fight with them, most of the opposition is through de-centralized means: local law enforcement, community activists and counterprotesters, journalists and others. As I understand, de-centralized means (albeit of a different variety) are Robb's prescription for dealing with the new Al Qaeda.

My apologies in advance for any facts I just got wrong; this was mainly a brain-dump to get this viewpoint on the table.