Relatives and opinions
My relatives on my Dad's side hail from South Dakota, and it was--and probably is--not uncommon for South Dakotans to have less than flattering opinions about Indians, expressed also in the den. I was fortunate that few of my relatives apparently felt this way, or if they did, kept it to themselves. I certainly was exposed to no such prejudices when I was a kid.
You're grandfather was probably right about his opinion of democracy.
That's okay--you don't have to tell me his name. I could probably track it down, but it's too much work. Heck, I think I've isolated you to one or two cities, making a broad assumption from your posts that you live in Franklin County, but the libraries there have pretty sparse websites.