NYT needs an editor:
“Mr. Bumpers was part of a generation of moderate Southern Democrats, among them President Jimmy Carter”
should read:
“Mr. Bumpers was part of a generation of leftist Southern Democrats, among them President Jimmy Carter”
Carter ran an infamous race-baiting campaign for Governor in 1970 against ex-Gov. Carl Sanders, accusing him of the egregious crime of shaking hands with Black sports players. Bumpers had the nerve to co-opt the agenda of GOP Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller and take credit for his racial politics. Both are/were creeps and phonies.