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LUFKIN - Texas Republicans lost considerable ground in rural Texas Tuesday night, a significant factor in the party's historic wipeout.

Voters in many of the state's most reliable red counties either stayed home or did the once unthinkable and pulled the lever for a Democrat, a Texas Tribune analysis found.