Here is one of the reasons Hillary called Byrd one of her mentors...

[raging moderate]

8. Yes, you are right.

It took absolutely no courage or insight for me to refrain from joining the KKK where I grew up, in a neighborhood crowded with Jews and liberal Lutherans and Congregationalists and Catholics. Probably nobody I knew had any KKK connections. It was different in other places, both in the North and in the South. In some places, people didn't know any Black people personally but were fed dreadful lies about them while growing up. Then they had to complete their education somehow on their own. Robert C. Byrd showed the ability to learn, change, and grow. This is a rare and admirable trait.