Don ' t give up on Sparty <| sep |> Technically Shannara falls in this category , but that ' s really stretching it . <| sep |> the Klan mask revealed a chaotic multitude of antiblack vigilante groups , disgruntled poor white farmers , wartimeguerrillabands , displaced Democratic politicians , illegal whiskey distillers , coercive moral reformers , sadists , rapists , white workmen fearful of black competition , employers trying to enforce labor discipline , common thieves , neighbors with decadesold grudges , and even a few freedmen and white Republicans who allied with Democratic whites or had criminal agendas of their own . Indeed , all they had in common , besides being overwhelmingly white , southern , and Democratic , was that they called themselves , or were called , Klansmen .