US Senate - the anti-incumbency state

[cos]

There's a state in the US where, since the 1960s, only one US Senator has been re-elected. He got re-elected several times, and was quite notorious in his day, so you might've heard of him, but he's been gone for a while now*. Do you know which state (and which Senator they did re-elect)?

Or, do you have a guess? If so, leave a comment before you Google or read other comments, I'm curious.

* edit: "a while" means more than just a couple of years :) Long enough that we already know his successor served only one term.

Edit2: To clarify, that one Senator they re-elected a few times was the exception - this state's pattern has been to not re-elect Senators. From 1970 - present, no Senator in this state except that one exception, has been elected more than once (or elected even once, if they were already serving due to being first elected before 1970).

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[cos]

South Carolina is about as far as you can get from an anti-incumbency state :)

For almost the entire period I'm talking about, both of SC's Senate seats were occupied by the same two Senators, Strom Thurmond and Fritz Hollings, who kept getting re-elected over and over. It's been less than a decade since either of their replacements got in, and both of them are still in (the one who's running for re-election this year, Jim DeMint, is polling ahead of his rival by more than 2-to-1, so he's certain to be re-elected).

Alaska's not it either, see above.

[lizkayl.livejournal.com]

Whoops, misunderstood the trivia question, read too fast.

[hermitgeecko.livejournal.com]

Strom Thurmond is also where I would have gone. Not because I misunderstood the question, but because I knew nothing about South Carolina's other senator.

[cos]

I think it's still a subtle misunderstanding of the question: It's mainly a question about "which state has this long pattern of *not* having Senators re-elected, for many decades?" rather than a search for a really long-serving notorious Senator. I didn't even say he was notoriously long-serving :) (he was in office for a fairly long time, though nothing close to Thurmond)