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In 1948 LBJ ran in a very tough race for the US Senate in Texas. He ran against a very popular Governor Coke Stevenson. Both sides pulled dirty tricks to get the Democratic party nomination. Which meant at that time you would be the winner of the November election. LBJ won and the rest is history. Stevenson became a Dixie crat and eventually fore shadows the rise of the GOP in the south. So what are some consquences of LBJ losing? Short term? Long term?
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