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Despite Sheldon's earlier tenure as chairman, the Yerger faction considered him to be the first of the modern state Republican chairmen in Mississippi. Yerger said that his forces represented "the ultimate break with the old-line, racist Southern Democrats who didn't know whether they wanted to be [[liberal]] or conservative, but were vocally committed to keeping long-held, highly corrupted power."<ref name=book/>
Despite Sheldon's earlier tenure as chairman, the Yerger faction considered him to be the first of the modern state Republican chairmen in Mississippi. Yerger said that his forces represented "the ultimate break with the old-line, racist Southern Democrats who didn't know whether they wanted to be [[liberal]] or conservative, but were vocally committed to keeping long-held, highly corrupted power."<ref name=book/>
===Building a party from scratch===
===Building a party from scratch===
Yerger held party positions beyond Mississippi. He was the chairman of the Mississippi delegation to the [[Republican National Convention]]s in 1956, 1960, and 1964. In 1960, Yerger he was elected to a four-year term as chairman of the Southern Association of Republican State Chairmen.<ref name=misspol/> In 1963, Yerger was named Mississippi chairman of the Draft Goldwater Committee under the national director, Peter O'Donnell, Jr. (born 1924) of [[Dallas]], [[Texas]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://projects.ecfs.org/fieldston57/since40/units/unit3/supplements/EdsallChain.html|author=Thomas Byrne Edsall with Mary D. Edsall, |title=A Pivotal Year|publisher=projects.ecfs.org|accessdate=May 10, 2014}}</ref>
Yerger held party positions beyond Mississippi. He was the chairman of the Mississippi delegation to the [[Republican National Convention]]s in 1956, 1960, and 1964. In 1960, Yerger he was elected to a four-year term as chairman of the Southern Association of Republican State Chairmen.<ref name=misspol/> In 1963, Yerger was named Mississippi chairman of the Draft Goldwater Committee under the national director, Peter O'Donnell, Jr. (born 1924) of [[Dallas]], [[Texas]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://projects.ecfs.org/fieldston57/since40/units/unit3/supplements/EdsallChain.html|author=Thomas Byrne Edsall with Mary D. Edsall, |title=A Pivotal Year|publisher=projects.ecfs.org|accessdate=May 10, 2014}}</ref>