The Ku Klux Klan in the SouthwestThis is a study of a disturbing phenomenon in American society the Ku Klux Klan and that eruption of nativism, racism and moral authoritarianism during the 1920s in the four states of the Southwest Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas in which the Klan became especially powerful. The hooded order is viewed here as a move by frustrated Americans, through anonymous acts of terror and violence, and later through politics), to halt a changing social