You’re a very silly person. It is pointless to continue this discussion if you believe that the Democrat legislature in North Carolina would have elected Jesse Helms to the Senate five times.
I’m a silly person? You are seriously suggesting that had the 17th amendment not been ratified that the make up of the legislature of SC would be exactly the same and Jesse Helms would be considering a career in office? I don’t even know where to begin at how silly that is.