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To me it wasn't what he said, it was the drawl.
That changed it from "Ha ha ha, maybe you were right all along, ha ha ha" to "Just between you 'n' me, buddy, you were right all along about the negro problem."
Second on the list of evidence was reversing himself on affirmative action.
There certainly is a rational argument, and even an integrationist argument for affirmative action. One could vote against it believing that affirmative action will actually hurt racial equality. Or one can vote against it because one is racist. Or one can vote against it because one finds it in one's best interests to be in good favor with racists.
Only the last reason would explain why one would CHANGE one's vote on the basis of a gaffe.
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