Central LA Elected Officials Condemn Lott -- With a Single Republican Exception

The Alexandria, LA, Daily Town Talk ^ | 12-18-02 | Peters, Emily

[Theodore R.]

Most officials from both political parties in Rapides Parish agree on one thing about Senate Republican leader Trent Lott's comments at Sen. Strom Thurmond's birthday party - the senator stirred up a lot of trouble for himself and his party.

[Theodore R.]

It is likely that Central LA voted for Thurmond in 1948!!!!! Then Governor Thurmond was the official LA Democrat nominee that year. Governor Earl K. Long, a Truman stalwart, called a special session of the legislature to put HST's name on the LA ballot. But Thurmond still won LA. Central LA has very few Republican elected officials; so there is little surprise that there would be "outrage" over Lott's Thurmond remarks.

[BnBlFlag]

Louisiana politics has changed a lot over the past 50 years, no? My father, a cotton farmer in Red River Parish, voted for Thurmond in 1948 along with the large majority of his friends and neighbors.