After Democratic triumph in the state elections of 1870 and aggressive federal intervention in 1871 and 1872, the formal Klan organization began to fade away. Local Klan-like groups continued to engage in racial and political terrorism, often calling themselves minutemen or rifle clubs, but they lacked larger organizational ties or even commonality of purpose. A romanticized memory of the first KKK legitimated their activities and, combined with the growing power of a Lost Cause mythology, contributed greatly to Georgians' acceptance of vigilante violence and lynching well into the twentieth century. By the 1890s, many men proudly claimed to have ridden with the Klan and thereby saved Georgia and the South from "Negro domination." This romanticized vision of the Klan was celebrated in popular novels and laid the foundation for the more openly organized Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the second Ku Klux Klan, founded in Atlanta in 1915.

–“Ku Klux Klan in the Reconstruction Era,”
Jonathan M. Bryant

The Ku Klux Klan reemerged in the early 1900s. Which evidence from the text explains why this was the case?

1;The Democrats began to lose control of the southern states.
2;The myth of the “Lost Cause” began to lose its effect on white southerners.
3;Some white southerners maintained a romantic view of the original KKK.
4;African Americans began to gain greater rights in the South in the early 1900s.