From The Huffington Post
More than half a century later, Strom Thurmond’s son, Paul, is battling in a GOP primary for South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District — a battle he’s expected to lose — against Tim Scott, an establishment-backed, Sarah Palin-endorsed, African American, Tea Party conservative.
Despite the seeming irony of Scott’s likely victory over the son of one of the most controversial politicians in race-relations history, the racial dynamic of the race is rarely discussed publicly, replaced instead with a debate about the candidates’ positions on the popular conservative issues of earmarks and spending.
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