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Article #4079Re: Whitehouse defends Lotts Racism!
From: Jim McCulloch
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 15:29
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 15:29
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in article h79kvuk4knprf2ji7dujdnhb9sqjibk35u@4ax.com, vonroach at vonroach@earthlink.net wrote on 12/13/02 10:35 AM: > On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 04:49:32 GMT, Jeffrey E. Salzberg > <jeff.salzberg@verizon.net> wrote: > >> Thurmond's campaign, as any knows who has done even so much as a cursory >> study of the 1948 election, was based on the platform of "Segregation >> Forever". > > What revised history text did you get that out of? The issue was whether to > retain the rather unpopular ex-Missouri Senator in the job he inherited from > FDR. I sauppose you think Truman was a very popular President Well, according to everyone except yourself and the headline writer for the Chicago Tribune, Mr. Truman was the most popular presidential candidate in that election. >- sorry , but > he > had to fight for the nomination, Which, apparently to your dismay, he won. Likewise, he won the presidency, and indeed, won it without the deus ex machina intervention of the Supreme Court. What is your problem, here, von Roach? And Strom's candidacy was a raw appeal to racial prejudice. Nobody who was not a bigot voted Dixiecrat. And nobody who is not a bigot believes it would have led to a better America if Strom had won. Best regards, --Jim McCulloch
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