The racist southern states had all been straight Democratic for 100 years, but they wasted no time getting out after that one law was passed. We don't need them, glad they are gone!

And the woman & Thurmond kept it secret all the child's life. I think it was a girl, who is now grown, and it finally got out. I think that was Strom Thurmond. Ironic, since he was racist.

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one can't be bigoted against a group that person belongs to.

Our history - and genes - are full of racists who regularly had sex with people they thought were inferior.

It isn't uncommon for a lot of African Americans to have that situation.

You're right. Most African Americans have white blood, thanks to the slave masters who impregnated their slaves.

while he worked against civil rights for Af. Americans.

The news came out on/or around his passing. I could be wrong on his passing benchmark.

Apparently he supported the girl on the downlow into adulthood. I think that he was married several times and has children by something like three women.

One of his white kids died tragically at 22, she got run over while at college. Not much was explained about how she died, but one could guess that alcohol was likely involved.

Yes, Senator Thurmond did father a female child outside of his marriage and yes, she was Black. Her name was Essie Mae Washington.
Her mother, who was 16 at the time, was a domestic in the Thurmond household. He was 22. But, although it was kept quiet, he never denied her existence. Because she was raised by her mother's family, she did not really know her mother, and didn't find out about him until she was 13. Although he was not a presence in her life as a child, he supported her throughout her childhood, right up to and including her college education. He saw her often and was proud of her. He also took an interest in her family after she married. She earned a college education, including a Master's in education and worked for 30 years as a teacher.

He was a racist. But his own daughter mattered to him and he was proud of her accomplishments.

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In opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957, he conducted the longest speaking filibuster ever by a lone senator, at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length, nonstop.[5] In the 1960s, he opposed the civil rights legislation of 1964 and 1965 to end segregation and enforce the constitutional rights of African-American citizens, including basic suffrage. He insisted he was not a racist, but was opposed to excessive federal authority, which he attributed to Communist agitators.[6]

Starting in the 1970s, he moderated his position on race, but continued to defend his early segregationist campaigns on the basis of states' rights in the context of Southern society at the time.[7] He never fully renounced his earlier positions.[8][9]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond

Even the most vile person has someone that person loves deeply. Even Trump has such a person somewhere.

for Af. Americans, which meant he was fighting civil rights against his own child.

I have no idea whether he cared for his child. But I was aware that he supported her, whether it was by choice or because he had to, or both, I don't know. But legally he was required to support her. The only way to keep it secret was to voluntarily support her, though.

It was kept a secret, of course, or it would have ruined his career, and I assume been an embarrassment to his family...illegitimate and the race thing, seeing how racist he and I suppose his family was, and the way things were back then.

I was merely supplying the information, not making a politically-supportive statement of Thurmond or his policies. Spare me your vile vitriol.

just because of whatever situation with his daughter.

he wanted a world where his daughter would be a lower class citizen. he isn't a very good father in that case.

"Hold on a minute," as in let me recall all of the particulars about Mrs. Washington-Williams. I was stationed in the Carolinas and absorbed a lot of local history back then and I just needed a minute to clear the cobwebs out and get the specifics in order.

I said "He was a racist." He switched parties to keep the status quo in North Carolina, despite an enlightenment among emerging leaders.