Ku Klux Klan

The Ku Klux Klan is a faction in Red Dead Redemption 2.

Information
The Ku Klux Klan was founded after the Civil War by veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee. Originally it was a social club and its name was derived from the Greek word kuklos (meaning circle) mixed with clan (spelled with a K). The group grew in membership and later became a violent white supremacist terrorist organization during Reconstruction.

History
By 1911, much of the Klan had dissolved with only a few small remnants in existence and hosting ceremonies of burning crosses in secret to evade authorities.

Red Dead Redemption
John Marston encounters members of the Ku Klux Klan on a few occasions: when they are intitating a new member into the organization and burning a cross as they complain about Congress and its policies as well as promising to establish "supremacy and sanity before it is too late". When they are trying to lift a cross for a burning ceremony, and when a few members show up disappointed that there weren't 25 members. Marston has the option of either killing them or watching the ceremony go awry in the first encounter, having the cross dropped on them in the second encounter, and seeing them burn themselves again in the third encounter.

Trivia

 * The Ku Klux Klan's appearance in-game in 1911 is technically an anarchonism as the modern-day incarnation and its rituals did not exist until 1915 (five years after the events of the game) and only in the 1920s did the group rise.