"I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either."
I bet you he didn't say a single thing other than that a segragationist was better than a kkk member.
You've slandered Truman.
And he said, specifically, that the election of Thurmond would have prevented "all these problems over all these years". You know as well as I do what that sounds like. Either Lott meant it that way, in which case he should go, or he didn't, in which case he's an idiot and should still go.
There's no way an honest man could ever interpret Lott's comment as meaning Truman should've lost. There was a Republican candidate, Dewey.