Miller was a well-educated, largely moderate, sometimes progressive lieutenant governor and governor, but after he was out of office, as the state politicians were shifting to the Republican party (claiming that Democrats were too liberal), he jumped on the bandwagon and wrote a book claiming that Democrats were no longer the party of the people. His was one of the more unusual pivots, because he had nothing to gain politically from switching sides. In my view, other than his later stance, he was about as good as elected officials at the state level get here--which is a pretty low bar, which is a pretty low bar considering we've had Herman Talmadge, Lester Maddox, and Marjorie Taylor Greene.