The Klan is still alive and well ....so to speak in E TN....
You Betcha, they went underground about 40 years or more ago.
The reason some think the Clan has died out is that they became educated and finally got some smarts.
They only keep records of members that flunked out of the 8 grade and are willing to march now and then wearing the Clan robes.--This gives people the impression that the Clan has few members and those are idiots.
FAR from the truth, in rural comunities and large towns the people that run the town be it judges , lawyers, doctors, police, school teachers whatever, the educated keep their sheets in their closet.
Not just the Clan, across this country there are hundreds if not thousands of these society's, be it the Tongs in New York, the Mexican groups, the Russians, the Irish, good grief, Millions of Americans belong to social clubs that are intolerant of others. The Loyal Order of the Moose is just one of them.
The Moose I have a bone to pick with, in Portsmouth VA. that Lodge had a rule that no man or woman in the military could enter the Lodge in uniform. 1974 or there abouts.