The Ku Klux Klan was never a Southern Organization. No, no, it came from China, or CHY-NA (as the Georgia police spokesman says)

 The Raleigh Standard 15 April 1868

    The Richmond Whig has an article purporting to be a history of the Ku-Klux Klan, which order it describes as a "political white league which seems simultaneously to have found a foot-hold in every State of the South." The Whig says its outlandish name is not of American origin, nor the whim of an ingenious wag, but like the order, originated in China, among the foreign merchants engaged in smuggling opium into that empire . . . .