Why did Ralph Yarbourgh vote for Civil Rights?

[All Along The Watchtower]

Bentsen in 1970 was recruited by John Connally to settle a score with Yarborough (the two hated each other).

As was also the case between Yarborough and Connally's mentor, LBJ. These divisions within the Texas Democratic Party were precisely why JFK went to Texas in November 1963...

EDIT: I didn't see Yankee's post.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Bentsen in 1970 was recruited by John Connally to settle a score with Yarborough (the two hated each other).

As was also the case between Yarborough and Connally's mentor, LBJ. These divisions within the Texas Democratic Party were precisely why JFK went to Texas in November 1963...

EDIT: I didn't see Yankee's post.

Yarborough was, indeed, a national liberal.

But a populist one, too!

I remember reading about his 1964 Senate race and just ridiculing the very notion of George Bush being elected in Texas . “Aw look, Prescott Bush, sent his boy down here and gonna buy him a Senate seat!” (paraphrased)