Why did the KKK target Italians and Poles?

Well as Quora User mentioned. The KKK wasn't always a white supremacist/nationalist group like many normal mainstream average Americans would view them as. The KKK hated immigrants even if their skin color are the same as them. read more

In the 1920's and 30's, the perception of Catholics and ethnic whites like Italians, Greeks , Irish and Poles and other Southern and Eastern Europeans was that they were "different" and a threat to the white Anglo-Saxon (WASP) character of America. read more

Because among other things, the KKK is anti-Catholic, and Rome is the HQ of the Catholic Church. read more