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How was the tidelands debate a deciding factor for the Texas vote in the presidential election of 1952?

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the federation had to fight in supreme court
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It was a case where the state and the federation had to fight in the supreme court. Politics changed because Texas started hating on anyone who tried to take it away so they switched their presidential support based on this.
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