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Thurmond joined the Republican Party in the 1960s and ultimately turned away from his segregationist past.
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Trent Lott (R-MS), whose fond recollections of Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist presidential candidacy provoked a wide outcry and ultimately cost Lott his post.
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She said she tried -- to no avail -- to dissuade him of segregationist positions, which produced "mixed emotions" for her.
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In 1968, they abandoned the Democratic Party in droves (with 64% voting for either Richard Nixon or the segregationist George Wallace).
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But the age of segregationist Democrats ended before most Americans were born.
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Trent Lott to walk the plank (and lose his job as majority leader) after Lott spoke glowingly of Strom Thurmond's segregationist campaign for president in 1948.
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Roosevelt passed laws that brought labor and African-Americans into the Party, but declined to push for laws that would have driven away the white segregationist South.
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"I never did like the idea of his being a segregationist, but that was his life, and there wasn't anything I could do about that, " she said.
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Moments like that help offset the somewhat self-congratulatory nature of the film, especially in how it halos the white people of the time who happen to have anti-segregationist attitudes.
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"Fables of Faubus" shows how Mingus occasionally butted heads with corporate supervisors: The composer wrote a libretto that further castigated Orville Faubus, the segregationist governor of Arkansas, but Columbia refused to let him record the text (the title itself was nervy enough in that buttoned-down era).
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