On Monday, a history professor at UNC Charlotte Karen Cox warned against President Donald Trump's campaign rally in support of controversial Mississippi Senate candidate Cindy Hyde-Smith (R).
Hyde-Smith made reprehensible comments about how she would be "front row" at a "public hanging," in a video posted on Twitter.
Cox told CNN's Brooke Baldwin that Hyde-Smith's comments reveal deep forms of racism in the South.
"Generations of white Southerners were raised on the narrative that she espouses," Cox explained. "Over a century ago, the United Daughters of the Confederacy worked to create a program of education with white children in the South."
Cox added, "But what's happened is generation after generation of white Southerners have bought into this mythology of the Confederacy. Hyde-Smith attended a segregation academy where she very likely learned the same ahistorical information."
"[Trump's] arrival in Mississippi to rally for Hyde-Smith is a reaffirmation of the comments that she made, but I know that not all Mississippians think the way she does," she concluded.
Watch the video below via CNN.
