“I shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side … Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”
— Robert C. Byrd, in a 1946 letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS) his fellow Democrats never seemed to worry much about when it became fashionable to tar others as racists.
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