You would be lying. However, the KKK may have saved he Democratic Party after the end of the Civil War.
From the History Channel:
A group including many former Confederate veterans founded the first branch of the Ku Klux Klan as a social club in Pulaski,
Tennessee, in 1866. The first two words of the organization’s name supposedly derived from the Greek word “kyklos,” meaning circle. In the summer of 1867, local branches of the Klan met in a general organizing convention and established what they called an “Invisible Empire of the South.” Leading Confederate general
Nathan Bedford Forrest was chosen as the first leader, or “grand wizard,” of the Klan; he presided over a hierarchy of grand dragons, grand titans and grand cyclopses.