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Robert C. Byrd is the 83-year-old senior senator from the state of West Virginia. In seniority, he is second only to Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. Senator Byrd was reelected in 2000 by an overwhelming margin. He is always supported by a vast majority of West Virginia's black voters who make up about 5 percent of the state's electorate.
But as a young man Robert C. Byrd was a member of the Ku Klux Klan....





