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Other examples of [[liberal]] college towns include [[Berkeley]], [[California]]; [[Santa Cruz]], [[California]]; [[Madison]], [[Wisconsin]] and [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]].
Other examples of [[liberal]] college towns include [[Berkeley]], [[California]]; [[Santa Cruz]], [[California]]; [[Madison]], [[Wisconsin]] and [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]].
Austin's liberal social and fiscal political atmosphere has also bred considerable [[libertarianism]] in the capital city.
Austin's mayor is Steve Adler.
Austin's mayor is Steve Adler.
[[Ralph Yarborough]], an attorney from Austin, was from 1957 to 1971, one of the two [[U.S. Senate|U.S. Senators]] from Texas. He was a leader of the dominant liberal wing of the Democratic Party. He defeated [[George Herbert Walker Bush]] in the 1964 [[general election]] but then was upset in the 1970 Democratic [[primary]] by [[Lloyd Bentsen]], considered a mainstay of moderate Democrats in Texas though he had like Yarborough a mostly liberal voting record in the Senate.
==Sports and recreation==
==Sports and recreation==