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"But, really, 'respectable' meant he looked like a human undergoing some painful and sludgy transformation into a terrestrial octopus with four legs instead of tentacles. This is how he presented himself to ask a favor. Anyone else confronted with Favor Borne would have run screaming."

Weirdly endearing. Also, a good early quote about Borne: "It has the economy of design usually only achieved by committees of one."

So far, it's the story of how blatantly racist southern Democrats acted to weaken and defeat just about every federal reform that could have had far-reaching effects on social and economic progress throughout the 1930s and 40s, just to preserve their twisted ideas of white supremacy at the state and local levels.