Afro Cheese
Senior Member
They feel that they are being asked to live with them. The KKK and other groups of that sort ("nightriders" from the movie Roots would be another good example) were started when the south lost the civil war in order to scare the blacks out of their homeland and scare them from pursuing equal rights. When slavery was first abolished most of America's blacks lived in the south.. there were few blacks in the north at all. As soon as the south lost the war and slavery ended, the whites in the south desperately sought a way to keep the blacks in their place. Some of them tricked the blacks into another form of slavery called "sharecropping" and others dressed up like ghosts and set fire to black church's, homes, and basically tried to bring terror into the hearts of African Americans.
There was basically a huge influx of black form the south to the north after the war to avoid the jim crow type laws of the south and KKK type of people in the south. Basically the Klan never got everything they want (which isn't to kill all black's it's to rid america of all blacks), but they got a good number of black people to move up into the northern cities and live in ghettos.