My view is that it's a mistake he made almost sixty years ago, and has atoned for it since. He has an "A" rating from the NAACP, and has had for decades.
In fact, up until the '60s, the Democratic party was the party of the south, and as such, was filled with racists and quasi-racists, (such as Byrd and Strom Thurmond) who would be appaling to me today, from a civil rights standpoint. But as the Republican party began pandering more to folks in the Deep South with strong racist ties, the party identities with regards to civil rights began to change.
Don't you ever wonder how many lynchings he participated in?
But as long as he said he was sorry and promised to legislate evermore Socialism, he's just peachy-keen, eh?!
LOL...yer hypocrisy is showing, Lefty...MUD