I see Trent Lott's under fire for his remarks at Strom Thurmond's birthday party saying that if Thurmond had been elected president in 1948 the country would be better off. Thurmond was a white supremacist and probably still is and ran then on a segregationist agenda. I'm not surprised nor are many people, this was not an innocent mistake on Lott's part, it represents a view point that is quite prevelant and is not going anywhere anytime soon.