[77pt77]

> he thought _Germans_ weren't sufficiently white for america in his 50s

50s!

I repeat, 50s!

This was no teen edgelord.

This was a man in his 50s in a time when most people he grew up with didn't get any more life experience than that.

[AnimalMuppet]

OK, but that's also a person who changed his mind in his 50s, and would not defend his previous position. Don't minimize that.

[pfdietz]

In the same vein as George Wallace then.