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).

Comments

[rmd.livejournal.com]

my completely wild-assed guess is alaska.

[lizkayl.livejournal.com]

Well, Strom Thurmand by S. Carolina?? forever. And Ted Stevens? Since about 3 years after Alaska became a state.

[yehoshua.livejournal.com]

The one that leaps to my mind is Minnesota, but both Mondale and Wellstone served multiple terms after 1960, so I'm stumped.

[wotw]

North Carolina/Jesse Helms ?

[sykotropic.livejournal.com]

You amuse me.

[roamin-umpire.livejournal.com]

I can narrow down a whole bunch of states that it's NOT, but I'm having a hard time coming up with one that it could be. Maybe... Minnesota?

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

I presume Helms. I know the other seat (held by Morgan when I first was aware of it) aways changed hands and I don't think Dole's been re-elected since. That other seat is so cursed it actually had a vacancy by suicide.