No, these are and have been for two hundred years active white Americans forming militias with the intent to harm, kill and suppress black Americans for power. (Along with other minorities but not with the same ferocity). They did so because Southern states made laws that lasted from 1740 - 1865 where white male legislatures made things like the Negro Act that empowered white owners and slave drivers to whip, beat or kill black enslaved for looking “rebellious.” The white got high on government power of choosing life and death over blacks by the law, not out of same general gullibility or random hate or joblessness.
They form militias when and were they want, under many different names, not some united “klan” umbrella, and have committed mini-genocides that went unpunished started after the Civil War known as massacres, riots and lynchings—all of which are white men organizing with weapons and setting out to kill one or more black Americans first across the South and then Midwest and West Coast. In 1981 the first group of organized white men that captured and killed an innocent black American was tried and fairly convicted in Georgia for killing Micheal Donald. 1981. From 1934 to 1981 extrajudicial killings of black Americans were not punished by white politicians, sheriffs, courts and all white juries. The Greensboro massacre of 1979, where white Nazi joined forces with White Klan members and set out with a map and directions given to them by the police, went into a black targeted area where black Americans were organizing politically, and slaughtered a whole bunch. Only five white were put on trial for the massacre and all were acquitted by an all white jury in 1980. Nazis and Klan joining forces, acquitted in North Carolina for a massacre they intended to carry out. And did. Like all the 150 years before that point.
The only difference is the ignorance from the elimination in the textbooks where the events are misnamed, misconstrued, if they appear at all, and acknowledged as bizarre single incidents where it appears whites and black somehow got entangle in a fight. A complete absence or structural analysis is missing to show the behaviorally trained pattern of whites. I just don’t believe this repeated simplistic northern liberal viewpoint any more (and yes I was raised a norther liberal with that viewpoint for decades). These people are not dupes suckered out of the trail park by some nazi recruiters. The white racism is endemic and empowers them to be positioned above black Americans by centuries of daily reinforcement by their politicians and their neighbors. They love the power, feed of each other, and don’s wait for permission or recruiters to load new magazines in their assault rifles and go shooting with each other on the weekends. I live in Texas now and see the jacked up pick up trucks with the AR-15 gun stickers and punisher skulls every day, everywhere. To call these type of people weak and vulnerable might get me knocked out or worse—so I’m not even trying. Twenty five years ago before I moved to Mississippi and South Carolina from the North I would have agreed wholeheartedly with you; ten years ago I would have called them trailer park rednecks, two years ago I would have shook my head and said I can’t believe them. Now, with continuous studies of this repressed history, I just call them extremely dangerous.