User:Andy Irons/Unholy Alliance
The Unholy Alliance was a political and paramilitary alliance between the Federalist Party, the ruling party of the Antilles, and the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist terrorist organization, that lasted from 1920 to 1951.
Prior to the Continental Revolutionary War, the Federalist Party and the Ku Klux Klan had been openly hostile towards each other since the latter's foundation following the American Civil War and the War of Contingency. The Federalist Party, and its predecessor: the Republican Party, actively sought to forcibly suppress the Klan, which itself resorted to terroristic methods in order to prevent the continued re-entrance of southern states, preserve white supremacy and segregation, and in more radical cases, to restore the Confederate States. Even as Federalist policies regarding the Klan eased, a product of the catering of the re-established southern voting base, both parties remained hostile towards each other all throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Although the Federalist government tacitly aligned with the Klan on certain issues and provided considerable concessions to the Klan's leaders, the Klan remained widely condemned and scorned as an extremist organization with terrorist and criminal elements. The second incarnation of the Klan during the 1910s helped changed perception of the Klan as a more honorable organization in the American Deep South, as well as sympathizers in the North. The shift in public opinion regarding the Klan, especially among the Federalist voter base, made it easier for the Federalist government to soften its hardline approach towards the Klan.
During the Continental Revolutionary War, the Federalists rapidly lost ground in the North and was forced to retreat to its base in the Southern United Commonwealth. Both the Federalists and the Klan decided to work together during the war out of necessity in their mutual opposition to the Continentalists. When the Federalists were forced to retreat to the Antilles, the remnant Federalist government enlisted senior Klansmen to assist in the retreating process to the Caribbean. The Klan was allowed to enter the Antilles under the condition that they would support the Federalist government's efforts to maintain a holdout regime in the Antilles and cease its "criminal behavior". Various Klansmen who had been convicted of crimes were granted clemency and some were even offered official positions with the remnant government.