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the most liberal wing of the organized labor, which becomes the umbrella of the texas afl-cio. the federation. and the group of white liberal democrats. they become known as independent democrats but previously they'd been in a group called democrats of texas or d.o.t. which was a breakaway liberal faction within that struggle for control of the party in the 1950's. people often confuse a coalition with two groups that are merging together and basically lose their identity. but a coalition is the opposite. as the great civil rights activist pointed out, one has to have separate homes, separate houses before you can forge a coalition among different groups. so when these groups came together, it didn't usually go well. this was not a smooth alliance. for all of the ways in which jim crow might have certain similarities, african-americans and mexican americans were fundamentally distinct. they lived in separate neighborhoods, they followed different leaders. they embraced different priorities. they practiced separate religions or religious denominations, spoke separate languages.