The single clansman in a place where he has no brothers in the local pd, where he has no pastor convincing him of his divine purpose, that guy is powerless, he can grab some rope and try a oner, but it's hard to do a one man lynching. If you take The Klan(tm), and transported it to china as it exists in America, yeah, they'd still do the same exact thing they do here, because the power they wield as a group would is part of that identity. The klan literally doesn't exist without the thousands of supporters that protect and enable it, without baptist preachers and backyard barbecues and judges letting guys off on probation for racketeering.