The KKK of the 1920s was established in near Atlanta in 1915 largely to protect and defend Georgia's statewide prohibition that has been imposed a few years earlier.
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Blacks, Republicans, Jews, Catholics, immigrants, and opponents of National Prohibition.
Many groups in America were opposed to prohibition. Irish, German-Americans, Italians, Greeks, Portuguese, Jews, urban dwellers, educated people, Catholics, organized labor, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), immigrants, libertarians, Constitutionalists, and many others opposed prohibition.
- if women could vote , they would vote for prohibition
Jews, Catholics, Immigrants and African Americans were among the groups the KKK targeted.
The first KKK was strongest in Tennessee. The second Klan, the KKK of the 1920s, was strongest in Indiana, where even the governor was reputed to have been a member of the secret organization and was elected with strong Klan support.