[3] Darby was abandoned by Nazis after he admitted that his wife was Chinese, and his claims that his two half-Chinese daughters shared his views were dismissed.
[4] Larry Darby, in his first run for public office, was the runner-up candidate for Alabama Attorney-General in the 2006 Democratic Primary.
[9][10] Darby also expressed anti-immigration views, declaring that the United States was undergoing a "Mexican invasion" and compared the current immigration to the Civil Rights Movement, seeing them both as events which have hurt the South.
[11] During the Alabama Ten Commandments dispute Darby promoted the constitutional principle of separation between religion and government.
The state's Democratic leadership responded in turn by publicly stating that they disavowed Darby and his beliefs and said they would not put him forward for any public office in the future; he was not expelled from the party or officially banned from any activities there, as it was assumed (correctly) that his reaction to being told he was unwelcome would be for him to depart on his own.