Southern Democrats were the slave holders of the previous century. The Klan was Southern Democrat. The Great Society was political in order to gain black voters.
Is there any evidence that the Democratic Party, as an institution and as policy, founded the Klan? Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's Vice-President, was a Southern Democrat. Surely he would have let the Klan go unchallenged but the Klan's first incarnation appears to have faded and become almost inconsequential by the end of Johnson's term.
Certainly there were Democrats in the Klan but also Republicans opposed to blacks given more freedom and rights. Lincoln himself would have considered not freeing slaves if it preserved the union and he envisioned colonization for freed blacks.
Even if Southern Democrats, as an official party, did found the Klan more than 150 years ago, what does that have to do with the modern Democratic Party, the party of diversity and inclusion? More relevant would be the modern Republican Party's re-energizing and broadening of the party's more-recent Southern strategy.
Typically, you just contradicted yourself there..."Even if he was"... Besides...homophobic [whatever you might mean by that] is a word that you would not even be aware of-- if you were not taught it by some modern day social structure. IOW there were really no 20th century references to this word.
If you are offended [for some reason].. I will try and avoid mentioning such in the future.
Anyway, I don't think you knew Hoover or anything about his personal life.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover#Sexuality
Nothing definitive there about Hoover being gay or a cross-dresser. More, I would say, to the contrary. FWIW
