Dominic Sandbrook

Obviously, there's the excitement of dressing up.

Often they don't need to wear the disguises because, as you say, they control the legal system.

That part of it, I think they're often, they really are doing it for fun.

They don't just wear white.

They wear black at night.

They wear red.

Some clans wear yellow.

I mean, they must look very weird riding around in their kind of yellow robes or whatever.

Oh, right.

Like they don't look weird if those robes are white.

Well, I guess we're used to the idea of them being white robes, right?

I mean, if somebody makes a film in which the Ku Klux Klan are riding around in red and yellow robes, you'd find that very... Would you not find that a bit odd?

The grand banana.

Exactly.

Well, they don't always wear those hats.

So sometimes they will wear horns or beards or they have giant tongues, masks with massive tongues.

An important point, actually, their robes were generally made by their wives or their sisters or their mothers or whatever.

So women are involved in the Klan as well.

But they don't have official roles within it.

No.