15 paraqgraphs and no mention that Thurmond was a Democrat segregationist who changed and became a Republican.
I am amazed..... well not really.
I'm just waiting for someone to pay for just who the ancestors are that were owned by Al Gore Sr, Fritz Hollings, and Robert KKK Byrd...
And before he was a Republican, he was a Dixiecrat - a party he formed because of the mainstream Democratic opposition to segregation.
If you're going to go that far back - it's important to distinguish between Southern Democrats and the rest of the Democratic party. Most Republican politicians today are in the vain of the Southern Democrat, and quite a few Republican politicians came to be as Democrats (Rick Perry - here in Texas).