re: #102 lawhawk

We can hope that base is shrinking every year. I don’t know though.

I haven’t run into any open bigots around here except our gun shop owner (and that fellow in the county seat flying the Dixie Swastika from his house).

As far as bigotry goes, I am not interested in policing thoughts; if you want to be a bigot in the privacy of your own home have at it Hoss.

But bigotry in politics, where ostensibly a politician regardless of stripe represents all constituents has no place.

Of note, Gov. Wallace in his later years repudiated his segregationist stance, and appointed a number of African-Americans to his administration.

When he died, tens of thousands of people turned out including a large cohort of African-Americans; they’d experienced his change of heart and his efforts to forward civil rights in Alabama.