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But there was plenty of indication that Tip Taylor's segregationist rampage, heated by the row over the Democratic platform and recent Negro sit-ins in Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga and Knoxville, was gaining momentum. If Taylor succeeds in moderate Tennessee, that borderland barometer may well reflect the pressure settings on the Democrats' civil rights platform plank throughout the whole South.
* So did Tennessee's other Senator, Democrat Albert Gore.