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{{Cquote|I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side}} Bilbo told ''[[Meet the Press]]'' in a 1949 interview:
{{Cquote|I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side}} Bilbo told ''[[Meet the Press]]'' in a 1949 interview:
{{quote|No man can leave the Klan. He takes an oath not to do that. Once a Ku Klux, always a Ku Klux.<ref name="mdah.state.ms.us">[http://mdah.state.ms.us/new/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/bilbo.pdf Robert L. Fleegler, "Theodore G. Bilbo and the Decline of Public Racism, 1938–1947"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160103063503/http://mdah.state.ms.us/new/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/bilbo.pdf |date=January 3, 2016 }}, ''The Journal of Mississippi History'', Spring 2006</ref>}}
{{cquote|No man can leave the Klan. He takes an oath not to do that. Once a Ku Klux, always a Ku Klux.<ref>[http://mdah.state.ms.us/new/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/bilbo.pdf Robert L. Fleegler, "Theodore G. Bilbo and the Decline of Public Racism, 1938–1947"],''The Journal of Mississippi History'', Spring 2006. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160103063503/http://mdah.state.ms.us/new/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/bilbo.pdf]</ref>}}
In 2001 Byrd used a racial epithet in an interview on national television.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FIBJt-c2o0</ref>
In 2001 Byrd used a racial epithet in an interview on national television.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FIBJt-c2o0</ref> Alex Knepper commented, {{Quotebox|The moral of the story is that you can always make up for being a racist SOB. But the real subtext of the story is: being a Democrat means that you can promote segregation, join the KKK, vote against both black [[Supreme Court]] nominees, and use the word “n****r” on national television — and still be remembered as a promoter of [[black]] interests.<ref>http://frumforum.com/remembering-robert-byrds-racism</ref>}}
Alex Knepper commented, {{Quotebox|The moral of the story is that you can always make up for being a racist SOB. But the real subtext of the story is: being a Democrat means that you can promote segregation, join the KKK, vote against both black [[Supreme Court]] nominees, and use the word “n****r” on national television — and still be remembered as a promoter of [[black]] interests.<ref>http://frumforum.com/remembering-robert-byrds-racism</ref>}}
==Congressional Service==
==Congressional Service==