re: #149 Joe Bacon 🌹

History lesson:

The KKK once had total domination in Indiana politics.

There was a time in the 1920s when being seen as a good, upstanding Hoosier meant joining the Ku Klux Klan.

At its peak, the Klan counted among its members the governor of Indiana, more than half of the state legislature and an estimated 30 percent of all native-born white men in the state. More than 250,000 Hoosiers swelled the Klan’s ranks - some because they believed in its anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic message, others because being on good terms with the Klan was necessary for their business or political aspirations - making it the largest Klan organization in the country.

theindychannel.com

And many were wait for it Republicans.