The Mindset Of The Racist South - 879 Words

In order to understand where the mindset of the racist south, you need to have an understating of the ideas of White supremacy and what it is pulled from. The Groups that formed from the ideals of white supremacy. White Supremacy, the idea of a racial group being better than others. The idea was born when the British started expanding westward. One thing that is was a big part of white supremacy is that people were categorized. They were categorized by skin color, head shape, religion, and education. People may think that the ideas of white supremacy did not start with the birth of the US. In reality all of these ideas and ways of life were pulled from theories and facts that at that time were concrindred to be factual. What they pulled†¦show more content†¦With the laws put into place and the southern feeling that the north is not respecting them after they lost the war. The white south responce to the freed slaves and their rights was to form groups who would scare them and their white supporters. The groups that rose from the ashes of the destroyed south were know as terrorist groups. In response to the new laws the major white supremacist group that formed was the Ku Klux Klan, the KKK were the main group who cause the most pain for the freed black and their supporters. To understand why they did what they did you need to know how they started. They were formed the winter of 1865 by six retired Conferdit shoulders. They form this group in the town of Pulaski, Tennessee, when they were forming they had to decide on what to be called. This is when KKK came to be, the KKK went for the name because of the meanings of the words. Ku Klux was pulled from the greek word of kuklos that has a meaning of circle brotherhood, and klan meaning family. When they first started they were a peaceful group, what they would do is get into their white clothes and walk the street at night and say they were the ghosts of dead confederate soldiers. Thats is why their uniform is the way that it is. There was more than one way to tell if a white southerner was in the KKK. Along with the uniforms they had they also used secret handshakes. All of the main members were past confident