Answers should include adiscussion of the control Democrats exerted over the presidency between1932 and 1968 and the Congress until 1994, as well as the strangebedfellows that Southern Democrats and African Americans made within thesame party.5.
Sweetwater is the county seat of Nolan County, Texas, United States. The population was 11,415 at the 2000 census. At Sweetwater during World War II, the Women Airforce Service Pilots were trained under the direction of the famed aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran at the former Avenger Field. The airstrip closed abruptly at the end of the war.
Sweetwater received a U.S. post office in 1879. The Texas and Pacific Railway started service in 1881, with the first train arriving on March 12 of that year, beginning Sweetwater's long history as a railroad town. To encourage the railroads, Sweetwater increased its water supply by building a small town lake in 1898, and three larger lakes thereafter.