Trent Lott's Racism
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Check out this 1948 Mississippi Democratic sample ballot to see what Thurman was running for back then: "REMEMBER: A vote for Truman electors is a direct order to our Congressmen and Senators from Mississippi to vote for passage of Truman's so-called civil-rights program in the next Congress. This means the vicious FEPC -- anti-poll tax -- anti-lynching and anti-segregation proposals will become the law of the land an our way of life in the South will be gone forever."
ANTI-LYNCHING? How can you be pro-lynching? And to think we had a chance to kick Mississippi out of the Union for good and we threw it away.