Ok........so that is some of the historical context...........also the word he picked for his hate group........circle.........why might that be important........?????   Witchcraft.........covens......gathering in  circles..................New Orleans...........a big city in Witchcraft...................

Creation and naming

A cartoon threatening that the KKK would lynch carpetbaggers. From the Independent Monitor, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1868.

Six Confederate veterans from Pulaski, Tennessee created the original Ku Klux Klan on December 24, 1865, during the Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War.^[37][38] The name was formed by combining the Greek kyklos (κύκλος, circle) with clan.^[39] The group was known for a short time as the "Kuklux Clan". The Ku Klux Klan was one of a number of secret, oath-bound organizations using violence, which included the Southern Cross in New Orleans (1865) and the Knights of the White Camelia(1867) in Louisiana.^[40]