All 11 Senators who voted against Thurgood Marshall were Democrats.

Notwithstanding Tom Coburn idiocy, you’d think Steve Kornacki would mention that fact in the article. It sure makes the story even more interesting.

He said the following but somehow forgot to mention that they were all Democrats.

Only 11 senators voted against Marshall, and their opposition “had everything to do with race — and, more specifically, with lingering white Southern resentment of the court’s 1954 school desegregation ruling (in which Marshall, as the NAACP’s chief counsel, had played a leading role).” All 11 were White and Southern, and most had signed the “Southern Manifesto,” a pro-segregation document drafted by the late Sen. Strom Thurmond.

Here are the eleven.

* Spessard Holland (Florida): Signed the Southern Manifesto and pushed for Brown to be overturned.

* James Eastland (Mississippi): Infamously suggested to the LBJ that the disappearance of young civil rights activists in Mississippi in 1964 was a hoax and “a publicity stunt.” The activists, of course, had been murdered by white supremacists.

* Allen Ellender (Louisiana): Once led a 27-hour filibuster of legislation that would have banned lynching.

* Sam Ervin (North Carolina): A “kinder, gentler” bigot, who won praise from some media outlets in the ’60s for at least not using ugly words when describing black people — even as he voted against virtually every piece of civil rights legislation.

* J. Lister Hill (Alabama): Another “moderate” who nonetheless signed the manifesto and voted against civil rights.

* Herman Talmadge (Georgia): As Georgia’s governor, he decreed after the ‘54 Brown decision that “blood will run in the streets of Atlanta”.

* John Sparkman (Alabama): Here’s how Time summarized Sparkman’s civil rights “problem” in 1965: “Not that John Sparkman is an integrationist — far from it. Over the years he has voted against more than 100 civil rights bills. But to diehard segregationists, he has never sounded as though he really meant it.”

* Ernest Hollings (South Carolina): He did oversee the integration of Clemson University as South Carolina’s governor, but, facing a Senate re-election campaign in 1968, he voted against Marshall.

* Russell Long (Louisiana): Another Southern Manifesto signatory

* Robert Byrd (West Virginia): He’s being remembered as a lion of the Senate this week, but not because of this period of his career.

* Strom Thurmond (South Carolina):