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Ralph Yarborough then ran in the primaries for governor in 1952 and 1954 against the conservative Shivers, drawing support from labor unions and liberals. [..] The 1954 election was particularly nasty in its race-baiting by Shivers as it was the year that Brown v. Board of Education was decided, and Shivers made the most of the court decision in order to play on voters' racism. In one particularly odious episode, a black man was hired to drive around East Texas in a Cadillac full of Yarborough stickers and to be obnoxious and insult gas station attendants. The man would say he was busy and had to hurry "to work for Mr. Yarborough." This is dirty tricks 101. Hire an unemployed person to act like a crazy ******* in the name of a competing candidate or to spread "his" message in crazy and disgusting written articles, then try to maximize this strawman's exposure in public. Cheap, effective on micro level and because it's impossible to pinpoint the crazies on other candidates, contains no risk whatsoever.