Never ever and then some, Byrd hated the blacks yet the dimwitted Democrats loved him.
Republicans are trying to hide their current racism behind examples of racism from the past. It is not working. The hardened Dixiecrats of the past are Republicans today.
Byrd was a conservative Democrat who renounced his racist past. The converted Republicans haven't bothered with the renouncing part.
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