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 Sunday, December 08, 2002

The Un-Colored Truth: Senate Republican leader confesses his nostalgia for segregation and lynching (Slate, et al)

"I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had of followed our lead we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either."

—Trent Lott at Strom Thurmond's 100^th birthday party, as reported Dec. 6 in ABC News' political Weblog, The Note. To watch a video of the festivities, click here.

"A vote for Truman...means... anti-lynching and anti-segregation proposals will become the law of the land and our way of life in the South will be gone forever."

— Sample ballot from Strom Thurmond's 1948 Dixiecrat party, courtesy of Atrios.

    

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