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Caption: SAYS NEW REPUBLICAN ROLE FITS HIM FINE - Sen. Strom Thurmond, conservative South Carolina Democrat turned Republican, says his new role fits him just fine. "The Republicans have treated me very nicely," Thurmond said in an interview. "The Democrats have shown no ill feeling." He switched party allegiance in the midst of the 1964 presidential election campaign.