But WVA sent Robert Byrd to the Senate.
Robert Byrd regretted his erstwhile bigotry, and claimed that he has met white n#@#rs, too. And that must mean that he’s genuinely penitent. Because when Trent Lott said once that had Strom Thurmond won his bid for the Presidency in 1948, there would have been a lot less problems, it didn’t matter how much he apologized or tried to explain, the Dems kept at him and at him until he resigned and left public life. Strom Thurmond, as it turns out, as governor of SC in 1946, vigorously prosecuted 26 participants in a lynch mob and that was the last lynching in SC ever, so I guess Trent Lott saying that there would have been a lot less lynchings had Thurmond been elected POTUS instead of Truman was outrageous and unforgivable to Dems. But Robert Byrd saying he’s met some “white n*##ers” was sufficient contrition and he got a pass.
#19. Re “But WVA sent Robert Byrd to the Senate”. Well, yes.
Back then, a KKK robe and leadership role was consisted a “credential” for politics.
Someone ought to check the old newspapers etc and see how many black people were murdered in W. Va. during the time of Kleagle Byrd’s reign.
Time to start putting Robert Bird on the Endangered Species list and tearing down his statues, changing the names of scores of building, highways, and outhouses.