17 posted on 04/02/2010 1:33:37 PM PDT by trumandogz
(The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
Tower ran in 1961 and was the first Republican senator elected in Texas since Reconstruction.
But he was the ONLY Republican anywhere in the South in his first term. So your statement 'there were a few Republicans in the South' is inaccurate. There was one. And he wasn't from the Deep South.
20 posted on 04/02/2010 1:45:57 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother
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