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Senates in the South See Shifts as Republicans Rise
The piece surveys 1966 style Senate races in the South where Republicans gain ground while Democrats defend incumbents. It notes Kentucky Texas Alabama Georgia Mississippi races, with Eastland in Mississippi a likely landslide and Nixon's impact shaping campaign themes across Dixie.
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Nate Bee
Senate
Winthern
Enators
John Sherman Cooper
Kentucky
Sh Serle Mately
Nate m Ty
Ikees
Dixie
George McGovern
Rmer
Louie Nunn
Walter
Dee) Hud
Dleston
Teadér
Huda
Janakis
Helms
Welthe
China
Russia
Galifianakis
Texas
Barefoot Sanders
Nixon
Hart
Sanders
McCovern
Opner
Tower
John B. Connal
McGovern
Alabama
Winton M. Blount
U.S. Senate
John Sparkman
Wallace
Sparkman
Georgia
Fletcher Thompson
Sam Nunn
Thompson
Herman E. Talmadge
Agriculture Committee
Talmadge
Nunn
Jack Miller
Mississippi
James O. Eastland
Gil Carmichael
Judiciary Committee
Agnew