Nordic Old Stock Americanism
In this excerpt Hiram W. Evans, the imperial wizard of the Klan, outlines who the Ku Klux Klan represented and why. Evan states that America is in a state of decline and that the old values of American life were under assault and must be defended. He blames this on the moral breakdown of traditional standards due to the influx of “strangers” who are destroying and bastardizing the nation’s heritage and prosperity. He calls for the defense and revival of “Old-Stock” Americanism, claiming that the Nordic Americans must come together in order to defend their civilization and way of life from the foreign invaders.
Evan states that the Klan is a collective of like-minded individuals who are fighting to preserve the “American