[Snerdley]

What did Lott say, exactly? I seem to have missed the news the day this statement was made, and I certainly see all the hoopla it has caused, but I can't find, for the life of me, the exact quote. Can someone help me out?

Thanks.

[Snerdley]

NM, I found it, I think. Although I don't see anything wrong with it, unless he was specifically refering not to Strom himself, but the single issue that's now more associated with Trent than Sen. Thurmond.

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The setting, for those of you who missed The Washington Post report last Saturday, was a 100th birthday celebration for Strom Thurmond.

Everyone was saying nice things about ol' Strom.

The Mississippi senator offered this praise:

"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."