From wikipedia:
In his first term, his Progressive program was largely implemented. He was known as "Bilbo the Builder" because of his authorization of a state highway system, as well as lime-crushing plants, new dormitories at the Old Soldiers' Home, and a tuberculosis hospital. He pushed through a law eliminating public hangings and worked on eradication of the South American tick. The state constitution prohibited governors from having successive terms.
"In Washington, Bilbo feuded with Mississippi senior Senator Pat Harrison. Bilbo, whose base was among tenant farmers, hated the upper-class Harrison, who represented the rich planters and merchants. The feud started in 1936 when Harrison nominated Judge Holmes for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Bilbo disliked Holmes, dating back to the Russell case, and spoke against him for five hours. Bilbo was the only Senator to vote "no," and Holmes was confirmed."
RIGHT WING POOR HATING EXTREMIST BILBO! OMG OMG OMG@!
Do you even read your own links?
Where did I say he was a right-winger? Although you left out the parts about Bilbo being a virulent racist and white supremacist. Basically a white populist who supported left-wing policies that would benefit poor white people.
My point with posting that link was that our modern conceptions of the political spectrum do not neatly line up with the past. Consider the fact that poor, working-class, and Southern whites overwhelmingly voted for FDR-along with African-Americans in the Northern industrial cities and Latinos in the Southwest (despite working-class whites being the primary beneficiaries of the New Deal). That kind of coalition simply doesn't exist anymore, certainly not nearly to the extent it did in the 1930s and 1940s.
