Last month in this space I mentioned Strom Thurmond for the first time, referring to him as That Old Confederate. A lot of people, both Right and Left, have nicknames around here: Thurmond’s was based entirely on the suspicion that, had he been around for the Civil War (and he didn’t miss it by all that much), he more than likely would have lined up on the wrong side. Strom Thurmond was, after all, a Dixiecrat. Now what are Dixiecrats? (We could speak of them fondly in the past tense, except that they still exist, just by different names.) Thurmond...