"While it appeared to America's newspaper's audience that Thurmond would pull votes from Truman. In reality, the votes the Dixiecrats pulled were the Southern blue collar union conservatives who generally voted Republican"
That is ridiculous. There goes the credibility of this author. Sensational charges require sensational evidence which this author does not give. By the way Zell Miller would be 75 in 2008.
I don't know about the data, but the logic seems reasonable to me....
As for Zell Miller being 75, he seems younger mentally and physically than many people half his age.
And a feisty rascal he would stiil be.
I'd vote for him...as long as Condi was VP.