“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 followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years, either.”
— Sen. Trent Lott on Dec. 5, 2002, at 100th birthday party for Sen. Strom Thurmond, who was the presidential nominee of the segregationist Dixiecrat Party in 1948
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