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{{cquote|We did a poll, first of all, to see if I had a chance. And the poll said that people still remembered my dad. That a certain age remembered my dad and what he did, and that they would support me because of that.}}
 
{{cquote|We did a poll, first of all, to see if I had a chance. And the poll said that people still remembered my dad. That a certain age remembered my dad and what he did, and that they would support me because of that.}}
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Johnston attempted to bring back the [[white primary]] after the [[United States Supreme Court]] ruled them unconstitutional in ''[[Smith v. Allright]]''.<ref name=eji/> He won election to the U.S. Senate in 1944 by boasting himself as being more staunchly racist than then-incumbent segregationist Democrat Ellison D. Smith.
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Johnston attempted to bring back the [[white primary]] after the [[United States Supreme Court]] ruled them unconstitutional in ''[[Smith v. Allwright]]''.<ref name=eji/> He won election to the U.S. Senate in 1944 by boasting himself as being more staunchly racist than then-incumbent segregationist Democrat Ellison D. Smith.
    
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