Description
With an introduction by Earnest Sevier Cox
Bilbo was one of the “most controversial” politicians ever elected to high office in the United States, serving as both governor and US senator for the state of Mississippi. An avowed Southern nationalist, Bilbo was even a member of the Ku Klux Klan in his youth, although he left that organization before he was elected to office. A firm defender of Southern segregation, Bilbo was unusual in that he realized that segregation was not enough and invoked considerable opposition from his fellow Southerners because of his demand that physical geographical separation was the only way to preserve Western Civilization. “If we choose any plan short of the physical separation of the races, we are in effect adopting the scheme of amalgamation of the races. Any student of racial history knows that if the Negroes remain in the United States, the last American will be an octoroon or a mongrel . . . If the Negroes are not removed, this condition may come about in three to five hundred years: The fact that it will come sooner or later is a certainty.”
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