^* Clark’s hypothetical nightmare did, in fact, come true: When Hawaii became the fiftieth state in 1959, “a rabble” of predominantly brown and yellow voters in the islands sent the nation’s first Chinese senator, Hiram Fong, to Washington. A self-made millionaire and son of a Chinese immigrant, Senator Fong would take his seat in the congressional chamber across from Strom Thurmond and James Eastland, two staunch segregationist Dixiecrats. The more astonishing fact—that a boy born in Honolulu to a white Kansan mother and a black African father would one day be elected president of the United States—would be simply beyond the pale of Clark’s wildest imaginings.