Trent on mixing. (Devil In The Details).(Brief Article)

IN HIS DEC. 13 NEWS CONFERENCE, Lott referred in passing to his having recently addressed "mixed audiences"--a phrase we'd long thought locked away in a dictionary of antique euphemisms. But the Lott affair brought to the surface all the garbage that was packed into the mind of the Old South, where the fear of interracial sex loomed as the primal terror.

Consider, after all, what Ol' Trent was affirming when he expressed his support for Ol' Strom's 1948 presidential campaign. "All the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the army," Thurmond bellowed ...

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