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After Democratic triumph in the state elections of 1870 and aggressive federal intervention in 1871 and 1872, the formal Klan organization began to fade away. Local Klan-like groups continued to engage in racial and political terrorism, often calling themselves minutemen or rifle clubs, but they lacked larger organizational ties or even commonality of purpose. A romanticized memory of the first KKK legitimated their activities and, combined with the growing power of a Lost Cause mythology, contributed greatly to Georgians' acceptance of vigilante violence and lynching well into the twentieth century. By the 1890s, many men proudly claimed to have ridden with the Klan and thereby saved Georgia and the South from "Negro domination." This romanticized vision of the Klan was celebrated in popular novels and laid the foundation for the more openly organized Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the second Ku Klux Klan, founded in Atlanta in 1915.
–“Ku Klux Klan in the Reconstruction Era,”
Jonathan M. Bryant
The Ku Klux Klan dissolved in the late 1800s. Which evidence from the text explains why this was the case?
The Democrats began to take control from the Republicans.
Klan members became less interested in the “Lost Cause.”
White southerners began to reject the KKK in growing numbers.
The federal government intervened less and less across the South.
