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Why is a Senate Office Building Still Named for an Unrepentant Segregationist and White Supremacist?

<p>Texas Senator Ted Cruz decried efforts to &quot;sanitize history&quot; and argued that &quot;the journey of the United States has been a steady journey toward freedom&quot; by way of explaining why he did not support removing segregationist Senator Richard Russell&#39;s name from a Senate office building. But few Democrats will candidly support change either.</p>
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