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gabriellah: ; all
this got me to remembering some latent stuff (loose string thoughts).
1. Reconstruction vestiges still there (or recently)in the South. Texas first non-dem Governor since civil war was Bill Clements i think. Happened too in another southern state in 2008 i think.

2. There is some federal 5th circuit or SCOTUS law (against discrimination or something ) that applies only to southern states. Other FReepers may know which one.

[Ohioan]

I believe that Alan Shivers, the Democratic Governor of Texas in the late 1950s, switched parties while still in office--but I could be wrong. I think it may have been about the same time that John Tower was elected to the Senate as a Republican--but again, I could be wrong.

William Flax