[CyberCowboy777]

If you look at real History and not revised history you will see many who fought against the federal government on the segregation issue were not necessarily racist.

They were fighting not to keep the black man down but to insure a limited Federal Government and to maintain States Rights.

That intention was not wrong (States Rights), it may have been poor timing and may not applied to segregation (I think the Constitution in plain in this regard and the States have no right to limit the rights of certain races), but you cannot say all of those fighting were racist.

[FreeTheHostages]

Hello. Um, everyone knows that. That's not what anyone is talking about. No one in this thread is suggesting that Sen. Lott is a racist. That's a given here.