"Even if there is a link, I'm not sure that it's noteworthy enough to mention". WRONG ON THAT!!!
How else do you think he (Thormond) is related to Al Sharpton? Strom's ancestor(s)(as well as Strom himself,) raped one, or several of Al's enslved female ancestors!!!  However, given Thurmonds's age, circumscribing almost THREE CENTURIES, he probably raped several succesive generations of Al's women-folk.  Yet another "creative" version of willful southern "inbreeding"  there are many documented products of Thormond' rape of a fifteen-year old maid in his family's employ, as well as their off-spring walking all around western South Carolina.  This is now a matter of public record!!! When Sharpton became publically known outside NYC (he was for decades earlier in the FBI's files, of which I suspect that Thurmond knew of him before then, given his special access to govenment files,) the old piking fart-child-rapist must have howled with satanic laughter that the descendant of one of his "bastard whelps" became a black activist. (And before you, or anyone else start with the infantile objections, all this is in the public record, just a click and a scroll away!!! Added to this, know that the alphabet soup of US, "unratified" federal police agencies have colullded with southern and mid-western (Mornmon) ancester-tracking organizations; indeed , many of the former overlap with the feds. Just as the WASPs across the Pond has ever done since the Domesday Book.  Rebuttal, anyone? 24.46.103.28  Veryverser