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| − | I do not think that these women necessarily hated the races that the KKK targeted or necessarily wished them harm, but they probably felt threatened by the large waves of immigrants coming in to America in the early twentieth century. These immigrants were coming in to America in large numbers and practically taking over the job market. And like we learned in class, these women were most likely afraid of both their shrinking family size and the white race. Of course, the race was not dying out, but it certainly seemed like it with all of the other races that either continued to have many children and or just seemed to be everywhere. In reality, I believe that the KKK offered white women a place to come together and feel like a unified race in an | + | I do not think that these women necessarily hated the races that the KKK targeted or necessarily wished them harm, but they probably felt threatened by the large waves of immigrants coming in to America in the early twentieth century. These immigrants were coming in to America in large numbers and practically taking over the job market. And like we learned in class, these women were most likely afraid of both their shrinking family size and the white race. Of course, the race was not dying out, but it certainly seemed like it with all of the other races that either continued to have many children and or just seemed to be everywhere. In reality, I believe that the KKK offered white women a place to come together and feel like a unified race in an America that was suddenly becoming filled with so many different races. -- CBrau |
