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After switching to the Republican party, Thurmond was one of the first Senators to hire an African American staff aide, sponsored a black man to be a federal judge, and voted for the [[Martin Luther King]] federal holiday.  Thurmond said he had made the move because Democrats were "leading the evolution of our nation to a [[socialist]]ic [[dictatorship]]."<ref>https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/legacy/obituary.aspx?pid=1118046</ref>  [[Joe Biden]] eulogized Thurmond noting that after Thurmond abandoned the [[History of Democrat racism|Democrat party and its racist history]] by becoming a Republican, he "came over to the good side."<ref>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/henrygomez/joe-biden-strom-thurmond-eulogy</ref>

After switching to the Republican party, Thurmond was one of the first Senators to hire an African American staff aide, sponsored a black man to be a federal judge, and voted for the [[Martin Luther King]] federal holiday.  Thurmond said he had made the move because Democrats were "leading the evolution of our nation to a [[socialist]]ic [[dictatorship]]."<ref>https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/legacy/obituary.aspx?pid=1118046</ref>  [[Joe Biden]] eulogized Thurmond noting that after Thurmond abandoned the [[History of Democrat racism|Democrat party and its racist history]] by becoming a Republican, he "came over to the good side."<ref>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/henrygomez/joe-biden-strom-thurmond-eulogy</ref>

Thurmond financially supported and had a lifelong family relationship with an out-of-wedlock daughter he fathered with an [[African American]] woman he impregnated when he was a young man.<ref>https://www.historynet.com/strom-thurmond-meets-his-daughter.htm</ref>

Thurmond had a lifelong family relationship and financially supported an out-of-wedlock daughter he fathered as a young man with an [[African American]] woman.<ref>https://www.historynet.com/strom-thurmond-meets-his-daughter.htm</ref>

==Early career==

==Early career==