“Why Don't You Be a Klansman?” Anglo-Canadian Support for the Ku Klux Klan Movement in 1920s New England

摘要

This article examines a little-known dimension to the Ku Klux Klan movement in the United States during the 1920s. As Anglo-Canadian Protestants supported the KKK to assert control over French-Canadian and other Catholics in the New England states, they undermined the Klan's emphasis on Americanism and illustrated an inherent contradiction in this avowedly nativist organization.