this is a man named theodore bilbo. he was governor of mississippi twice, in the 19 tens, and the 1920s. he was a democrat, a dixiecrat, before the realignment of the parties, on the racial issues that happened in the 19 50s. bilbo was just profiled in the washington post this weekend for reasons that will become clear in a moment, if they're not already. governor bilbo wrote a book in 1947, it was called, take your choice, separation or realization. in the book, he argued that white people were being replaced, that the white race would in fact disappear, if white people allowed nonwhite people to live freely among them. if they allow that to happen for much longer, white people would disappear. it was a plot, see? the existence of black people and other non white people, this insistence that white people somehow had to abide by them, and here in america, that was a plot. it was deliberately designed to eliminate the white race. the white people had to fight back against that. july 1946, that bilbo was running for reele

senate at the time, they said they weren't sure they were going to see theodore bilbo in the senate given what the investigation had turned up about the crimes and all of the bribery. southern senators though united and they said in response that if bilbo was blocked from taking his seat in the united states senate, they would block the seating of every united states senator in the united states senate. they would in other words, shut down the senate. s they would shut down the legislative branch of the federal u.s. government indefinite limit they would end the u.s. senate, unless theodore bilbo was sworn in, bribes, terrorism and all. he was their guy. they were willing to get rid of the united states senate in order to stand up for him. the wholeun standup was only resolved whenst theodore bilbo d died from cancer before the senate ever came into session that year.me the whole standoff sort of became moot. both of those examples are from the '40s. but you know, pick a decade. i got, a million of them. this isi a man named david lan. he was part of a para military group that robbed cars