[GraniteStateConservative]

Is this consistent with your hypothesis that he just sees the Jim Crow era as no big whoop?

Personally, I don't see much separation between someone who supports it and someone who doesn't grasp (at this late day) that it was an evil stain on our history.

[Torie]

I don't think Lott is confortable about apologizing about the South's past, because that means he must apologize about his own past, and he isn't ashamed of his past, even though he accepts the present, and doesn't dwell on the good old days too much. My hypothesis given this piece has in short changed emphasis slightly. And if the piece is true, his Friday confession was an act, driven by fear and coercion, rather than conviction.

[dfwgator]

Personally, I don't see much separation between someone who supports it and someone who doesn't grasp (at this late day) that it was an evil stain on our history.

Lott's from Mississippi, 'nuf said.