Florida once had a governor who would have stood up to the race baiters. In fact he did stand up to them. He got on stage at FSU and literally took the microphone out of the hand of Stokely Carmicael and gave his opinion. Stokely looked shocked.
He was Claude Kirk. He also drove through an area of Tampa where Blacks were rioting, manning a .50 caliber machine gun.
We could sure use a man like that today.