re: #308 sattv4u2

They pointed to the Dixiecrats. Nevermind that that was 1) over 50 years ago and 2) they were kicked out of the Dem party 50 years ago.
,, umm,,, which dixiecrats were “kickied out of the Dem party 50 years ago?

Al Gore SR.?
Robert Byrd?
Speaker of the House (at the time, who blocked the civil rights leg) (whose name escapses me at the moment)

Robert Byrd from the wiki:

When running for the United States House of Representatives in 1952, he announced “After about a year, I became disinterested [in the KKK], quit paying my dues, and dropped my membership in the organization. During the nine years that have followed, I have never been interested in the Klan.” He said he had joined the Klan because he felt it offered excitement and was anti-communist.[6] However, in 1946 or 1947 he wrote a letter to a Grand Wizard stating, “The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state in the nation.”[11]

Holy cow, batman!

In 1997, he told an interviewer he would encourage young people to become involved in politics, but to “Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don’t get that albatross around your neck. Once you’ve made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in the political arena.”[12] In his latest autobiography, Byrd explained that he was a member because he “was sorely afflicted with tunnel vision — a jejune and immature outlook — seeing only what I wanted to see because I thought the Klan could provide an outlet for my talents and ambitions.”[13] Byrd also said, in 2005,“ I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America. I apologized a thousand times… and I don’t mind apologizing over and over again. I can’t erase what happened.

I don’t know if I can accept his apology. I suppose I’m spiritually bound to do so, but I’ll let him tell it to G-d.