Russell is seen and always will be viewed as a Segregationist, just like George Wallace, Robert Bird and Strom Thurmond.
I doubt anyone in elected office will advocate for Russell.
Robert Byrd isn’t viewed as a segregationist by the democrats... They once revered him as the “conscience of the senate”, just as they revere Woodrow Wilson as one of the greatest democrat presidents ever.... Ya know, that president who institutionalized segregation at the federal level.