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Strom Thurmond: From Segregationist to Servant of the Regime Robert Hampton, American Renaissance, December 22, 2020 Joseph Crespino, 416 pages, $32.81. “When Strom Thurmond ran for president, [Mississippi] 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 the years, either.” In 2002, then-Senate Republican leader Trent Lott upset many people with those remarks. They were meant as a friendly tribute for a man who had just turned 100. However, journalists turned it into an endorsement of segregation. Strom Thurmond’s 1948 presidential run was defined by segregation, and despite his decades of later service, he never overcame his reputation as a Southern reactionary.

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