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[[File:Bilbo.png|left|275px|thumb|Theodore Bilbo]]
'''Theodore Gilmore Bilbo''' was a [[Democrat]] [[Senator]] and [[Klansman]] from [[Mississippi]]. He was friends with other [[racist]] Democrats, such as the [[Exalted Cyclops]] [[Robert Byrd]] and [[President]] [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]], the latter of which called him "a real friend of [[liberal]] [[government]]."<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/new-deal-democrats-republican-party/ ''National Review''. Retrieved September 14th, 2020.</ref> He claimed himself to be "100 percent for Roosevelt...and the [[New Deal]]."<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/a-history-of-liberal-white-racism-cont/275129/ ''The Atlantic''. Retrieved September 14th, 2020.</ref>
'''Theodore Gilmore Bilbo''' was a [[Democrat]] [[Senator]] and [[Klansman]] from [[Mississippi]]. He was friends with other [[racist]] Democrats, such as the [[Exalted Cyclops]] [[Robert Byrd]] and [[President]] [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]], the latter of which called him "a real friend of [[liberal]] [[government]]."<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/new-deal-democrats-republican-party/ ''National Review''. Retrieved September 14th, 2020.</ref> He claimed himself to be "100 percent for Roosevelt...and the [[New Deal]]."<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/a-history-of-liberal-white-racism-cont/275129/ ''The Atlantic''. Retrieved September 14th, 2020.</ref>
In his book When ''Jim Crow Met John Bull'', Graham Smith referred to a letter Bilbo received from the Exalted Cyclops Robert Byrd when on the 1945 controversy raging over the idea of racially integrating the military.
{{Cquote|Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.}} He had earlier written Bilbo:
{{Cquote|I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side}} Bilbo told ''[[Meet the Press]]'' in an August 9th, 1946 interview: {{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.</ref>}}
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