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Applying David Yeagley's own logic, so far as I can follow it, why should he have
been allowed to vote in the '48 election?

You've hit the nail on the head.
As I tell friends, Lott forgot that he was in The Party of Lincoln...not The Party
of Jefferson Davis.

At the same time, I think Yeagley has mis-stated his real point...
(a presumption I make because I've agreed with a lot of his other columns)...
the question to ponder is how an identifiable "ethnic" group goes about preserving it's
identity in a free society, without being called/perceieved as racist.

That IS a real pickle...given our interplay of issues such as free will, self-determination,
and a bunch of other things folks in less-blessed countries never have the luxury to worry about...
(myself, I just go with the "hey, you are free to maintain your identity or not
maintain your identity, within the bounds of the law")