AAABEST, look at Thurmond's 1948 platform:
On July 17, 1948, delegates from 13 southern states gathered in Birmingham to nominate Thurmond and adopt a platform that said in part, "We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race."
Do you agree with Trent Lott that the party of "segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race" should have been given the keys to the White House?
No I don't agree with that. But who cares who agrees with it? So what if I did "agree" with it, or Lott agrees with it or Thurmond agrees with it. Big effen deal. Let's just interrogate everyone under light bulb and ask them if they ever used the word "nigger" after 1948.
Lott's done much worse than come within three degrees of supporting someone who believed in segregation in 1948. You wouldn't know it reading this thread.
The PCers are fully in control of the conversation.
Did either party of that time disagree with those positions? Did they believe they should be decided on a State by State basis or by national legislation? Congress had not enacted any recent laws against segregation until many years after 1948 to my knowledge.