[The Wizard]

If Lott had sid this, it would all be over:

"In 1948, when I was a democrat, I supported those goals, then I became a republcan and changed those views."

?That would have killed the story

[SteveTuck]

"In 1948, when I was a democrat, I supported those goals, then I became a republcan and changed those views."

Southern Democrats from Reconstruction to the 1970s were conservative, rather than liberal. The South was a one party region, with the Democratic Party as the dominant party. The recent dominance of the Republican Party in the South began when a growing number of Southern Democrats reconciled their political beliefs with their party affiliation by switching to the Republican Party.

[ravingnutter]

"In 1948, when I was a democrat, I supported those goals, then I became a republcan and changed those views."

Only one problem with that...Lott was born in 1941...he was only 7 years old in 1948!