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While filibustering the 1937–38 anti-lynching bill, Bilbo gave his infamous "floodgates" diatribe:<ref>Mace, Darryl (2014). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/In_Remembrance_of_Emmett_Till/sPL3AwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=theodore+bilbo+costigan-wagner&pg=PT34&printsec=frontcover In Remembrance of Emmett Till: Regional Stories and Media Responses to the Black Freedom Struggle]. ''Google Books''. Retrieved June 16, 2023.</ref>

While filibustering the 1937–38 anti-lynching bill, Bilbo gave his infamous "floodgates" diatribe:<ref>Mace, Darryl (2014). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/In_Remembrance_of_Emmett_Till/sPL3AwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=theodore+bilbo+costigan-wagner&pg=PT34&printsec=frontcover In Remembrance of Emmett Till: Regional Stories and Media Responses to the Black Freedom Struggle]. ''Google Books''. Retrieved June 16, 2023.</ref>

{{cquote|If you succeed in the passage of this bill, you will open the floodgates of hell in the South. Raping, mobbing, lynching, race riots, and crime will be increased a thousandfold; upon your garments and the garments of those who are responsible for the passage of the measure will be the blood of the raped and outraged daughters of Dixie. as well as the blood of the perpetrators of these crimes that the red-blooded Anglo-Saxon white Southern men will not tolerate.|||Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo (D–MS), January 1938}}

{{cquote|If you succeed in the passage of this bill, you will open the floodgates of hell in the South. Raping, mobbing, lynching, race riots, and crime will be increased a thousandfold; upon your garments and the garments of those who are responsible for the passage of the measure will be the blood of the raped and outraged daughters of Dixie as well as the blood of the perpetrators of these crimes that the red-blooded Anglo-Saxon white Southern men will not tolerate.|||Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo (D–MS), January 1938}}

====Pushing for the deportation of blacks ''en masse''====

====Pushing for the deportation of blacks ''en masse''====