My only prediction about the effect of Trent Lott’s comments praising Strom Thurmond’s segregationist bid for the presidency in 1948 is that the whole thing will be quickly forgotten.
?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.?
Yeah, that’s easy to misinterpret. Words. mean. things.