In 2001, while Lott unable to let go of his past hatreds cast the only vote against the confirmation of Judge Roger Gregory, the first African American judge ever seated on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Strom Thurmond having renounced his past by his actions - voted for Gregory and got a Pres W BUSH REPUBLICAN CONSERVATIVE Judicial Appointee on the bench.
Note- it's no accident that the word Black does not precede CONSERVATIVE judicial Appointee.
Chracter Matters
"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."~Trent Lott - December, 2002
The more difficult I find it to believe that Lott doesn't harbor some genuine Dixiecrat nostalgia, or didn't at one time.
It's hard to imagine anyone who was never a segregationist ever saying such a thing.
