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I would be very interested in seeing your documentation for making that statement [about Helms as an Ex-Dem segregationist], particularly in regards to Senator Helms.

From the National Review ... on Helms's retirement. Last I checked, NR was NOT a liberal rag.

"When segregation began to wane, Helms's Carolina counterpart, Strom Thurmond, went home to make new friends. But since his election in 1972, Helms has been defining himself by his enemies."
Eventually, Helms ended up on WRAL-TV in Raleigh, denouncing the big government social programs, liberals, hippies, and civil-rights activists who helped define North Carolina (and America) in the 1960's. Long before Rush Limbaugh, Helms was on the airwaves dismissing the University of North Carolina (UNC) as the "University of Negroes and Communists."
This is one of the disturbing legacies of Jesse Helms. Though you won't see it mentioned in the media coverage of his retirement, Helms was in fact an avowed and unapologetic segregationist. As a campaign worker, he helped elect segregation candidates before his own run in 1972. Unlike neoconservatives who espouse state's rights on principle, despite any unwanted outcomes on racial issues, Helms backed state's rights specifically because he wanted states to have the right to segregate. If Helms's position on 1960's civil-rights legislation has changed since then, he hasn't mentioned it.

Be careful what you ask for ... you just may get it. :)