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This debacle can be laid at the hands of eastern views that they still hold from the civil war. They view all southerners as racist, regardless of anything to the contrary. All southerners know this and none of us like it. In fact, I resent the hell out of it!

Which is why I resent the hell out of Trent Lott setting us back decades in public perception of Southerners and Republicans on race relations with his thoughtless, stupid comment.

The thing that bugs me about Trent Lott is that his words state that he basically believes the republican party was founded on bad ideas.

For Trent Lott, with his efforts to secure Jefferson Davis' desk, restore his citizenship in the US, to call the civil war... the "war of Northern Aggression" is all fine and dandy, for an unreconstructed democrat. Abraham Lincoln was the guy opposing Lott's hero on the political and physical battlefield.

Let us not forget that there was a fine Republican candidate for President in 1948. Anybody ever hear Lott say that he thought Dewey would have made a good president? Lott claimed on Larry King, he knew squat about Dewey.

There are democrats who left the republican party over issues such as abortion, taxes, etc, and those who left for "other reasons". Since Trent Lott seems to long for the days of democrats Jefferson Davis and Strom Thurmond, what kind of a republican is he exactly anyways?