. >> that was strom thurmonds, south carolina, 1948.n for president that year on a segregation ticket. the basic idea behind his run for president was that the two political parties in our country were not racist enough that year. thurmond had to run for president in order to create a whole new party specifically to meet the racial needs of his constituents. >> the southern revolt against president truman reaches its climax at birmingham under the states' rights banner. alfalfa bill murray joins in the protests against the president's civil rights program. more than 6,000 flocked to the convention to select the presidential ticket. 13 southern states are represented in the session which precedes the nomination of governors thurmond of north carolina and wright of mississippi as party standard bearers. governor thurmond attacks the civil rights plank. >> it simply means that's on the part of this president to dominate the country by force and to put into effect these uncalled for and damnable proposals he has recommended under of guise o

100th birthday, strom thurmond had been the top senator in the united states. but two weeks after he said we would have been better off in the country if the whole country had voted for the segregationist position, in 1958, two weeks after that, trent lott was gone. he was most recently enthusiastic about trump, saying what he would be for him and his friends. he is probably better off not as a senator any more. it's important for us as a country to know basically trent lott couldn't stay on as the top republican senator in washington, once he was caught talking on tape the way he did about strom thurmond and his segregationist rant about the presidency. at some point, this is what normal politicians choked on. there did used to be a lot of these guys around, and for a while, it felt like they were all going to live to be 500 years old. but they all nearly died out. i'm 43 years old, i saw it ethically unwieldy for them to run on these campaigns. over the course of my life i have seen most of them die out. most of them, not all of them. that ends up being reall

. >> that was strom thurmond. it was the two political parties in our country, he said, that were not racist enough, so he had to run in order to create a whole new party, specifically to meet the racial needs of his constituents. >> bill murray comes out of retirement to join in the protests against the civil rights program. more than 6,000 to protest the ticket. governor thurmond attacks the civil rights rank. >> it simply means that it's wrong to dominate their country by force and to put into effect these uncalled for and these damnable proposals, he has recommended under the guise of so-called civil rights. and i tell you the american people from one side to the other had better wake up. and oppose the program, and if it does, the next thing will be is a totalitarian state in these united states. >> strom thurmond, running for president in 1948 to stop the totalitarianism for president and desegregation. he did all right and lost. it was not too long, 1954 before south carolina would elect him to the united s

strom thurmond, the former segregationist candidate for president was the chairman of the senate judiciary committee in 1986 and he tried to get jeff sessions' nomination through that committee, but he couldn't. because republicans defected and voted with all the democrats to reject jeff sessions' nomination when they discovered that when he was working as a prosecutor in alabama, he called the naacp unamerican. and he addressed a black lawyer as "boy." that's why jeff sessions couldn't get through senate confirmation process under the old rules followed by democrats and republicans. he couldn't get through a republican-controlled committee. if jeff sessions had been an editor of something like breitbart, ronald reagan wouldn't have even nominated him. the reagan administration discovered those things about jeff session only after he was nominated. but that was then. and trump is now. trump is now. and we don't know what the rules are now. someone who traffics in much more than what jeff sessions said back then will be with the president every day in the white house as his senior strategis

we want another strom thurmond on our hands? i would ask people to please vote for the democrat ticket this time. we need a change in our nation. thank you. host: do you have a comment to that? guest: i think alabama is a good example where we look at the tight senate races and you forget there are a lot of races that aren't competitive. richard shelby was worried about the primary. as soon as he won the primary, his path to reelection was pretty set. the polarization in states like alabama make these races impossible for the other party. host: let's talk about another close race, north carolina. republicano usa, senator richard burr slim the over democratic challenger deborah ross. has flipped since early fall. a lead of four percentage lease but that has fallen to less than two points as of november 2. give us the highlights of that race. guest: this is another race where democrats weren't necessarily, they did not think it was going to be a top-tier race. now you have the former state lawmaker running. i think she has run a m

the were experiencing dixiecrat candidacy of strom thurmond for president in 1948. the departure of the final and oldest confederate veterans. there were actually know firsthand witnesses to the war. they were leaving the stage. it was sort of a secondary memory passed down to people rather than experience spoken of firsthand. where were we at as a country, and in our commemoration of the when wer in that period got to the early 1950's when they were being contemplated? dr. koski: i will stand. can everyone hear me? he has not asked me to digest my entire 300 page book so i will not try. a little bit of background before the 1950's. he mentioned the dixiecrat's in 1948, a very important year in the history of the confederate flag in particular. let me start with the immediate aftermath of the civil war. there is the old adage that the winners write history. most of you know in the american civil war, the real exception to the rule. maybe unique in modern history. the losers in the american civil war and quite the role in shaping our understanding of the history. whe

we want another strom thurmond on our hands? i would ask people to please vote for the democrat ticket this time. we need a change in our nation. thank you. host: do you have a comment to that? guest: i think alabama is a good example where we look at the tight senate races and you forget there are a lot of races that aren't competitive. richard shelby was worried about the primary. as soon as he won the primary, his path to reelection was pretty set. the polarization in states like alabama make these races impossible for the other party. host: let's talk about another close race, north carolina. republicano usa, senator richard burr slim the over democratic challenger deborah ross. has flipped since early fall. a lead of four percentage lease but that has fallen to less than two points as of november 2. give us the highlights of that race. guest: this is another race where democrats weren't necessarily, they did not think it was going to be a top-tier race. now you have the former state lawmaker running. i think she has run a m

we want another strom thurmond on our hands? would ask people to please vote for the democrat ticket this time. we need a change in our nation. thank you. host: do you have a comment to that? guest: i think alabama is a good example where we look at the tight senate races and you forget there are a lot of races that aren't competitive. richard shelby was worried about the primary. as soon as he won the primary, his path to reelection was pretty set. the polarization in states like alabama make these races impossible for the other party. host: let's talk about another close race, north carolina. according to usa republican senator richard burr slim the over democratic challenger deborah ross. has flipped since early fall. burr had a lead of four percentage lease but that has fallen to less than two points as of november 2. give us the highlights of that race. guest: this is another race where democrats weren't necessarily, they did not think it was going to be a top-tier race. now you have the former state lawmaker running. i thi