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The estate tax is periodically the subject of political debate. Some opponents have called it the "death tax" [1] while some supporters have called it the "Paris Hilton tax". [2] There are many exceptions and exemptions that reduce the number of estates with tax liability: in 2021, only 2,584 estates paid a positive federal estate tax. [3]
This, along with strong loyalty of Texas Democrats much more conservative than the liberal Humphrey, [7] was sufficient to allow the Democrats to carry the state. Exit polls suggest Humphrey gained a third of the non-Hispanic white vote in Texas, [7] vis-à-vis around 25 percent in Virginia and less than 20% in all other southern states. [8]