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Today is Sweetmorn, day 49 in the season of The Aftermath, 3268.

It seems like every time Trent Lott opens his damn mouth, I get more and more embarrassed to say that I grew up in Mississippi.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20730-2002Dec6.html

Senate Republican leader Trent Lott of Mississippi has provoked criticism by saying the United States would have been better off if then-segregationist candidate Strom Thurmond had won the presidency in 1948.

Speaking Thursday at a 100th birthday party and retirement celebration for Sen. Thurmond (R-S.C.) in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Lott said, "I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either."
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William Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard, said "Oh, God," when he learned of Lott's comments. "It's ludicrous. He should remember it's the party of Lincoln," referring to Lott's role as Republican leader of the Senate, which the GOP will control when the new Congress convenes next month.

When I came to DC for college, the first thing that I was almost always asked when people found out where I was from was "So, have you seen Mississippi Burning?" Trent is not exactly helping dispel the idea that anyone from Mississippi is some sort of inbred, segregationist, homophobic asshole, now is he?