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The States' Rights Democratic Party (whose members are often called the Dixiecrats), also colloquially referred to as the Dixiecrat Party, was a short-lived segregationist, States' Rights, and old southern democratic political party in the United States, active primarily in the South.
During the later bit of the first party system and early second party system politics in Georgia was divided between two Democratic-Republican, later Democratic, political factions, the Troup party, earlier called the Jackson and Crawford parties, and the Clark party, informally called the Union party after Clark's departure from the state. [1]
Party Time period Ideology Peak presidential vote Peak Senate Peak House of Representatives Peak Georgia State Senate Peak Georgia House of Representatives; People's Party of Georgia [8] 1892-1906 [8] Agrarian socialism: 18.80%: 0/2 1 [9] 0/56 0 States' Rights Democratic Party of Georgia [8] 1948 [8] Segregationism: 20.31%: 1/2 0 0/56 0 Reform ...
Dixiecrats or States' Rights Democratic Party, a short-lived (1948) segregationist political party in the United States; States' Rights Party of Louisiana, organized in 1956 in opposition to racial integration of schools; see History of Louisiana; National States' Rights Party, a far-right white supremacist party in existence in the U.S. from ...
[3] [4] However, the state of Georgia does currently continue to maintain a Republican lean on the state level and federal, with Republicans controlling every statewide office, having Republican majorities in the State House and Senate, as well as a complete Republican pick on the Georgia Supreme Court. Though losing the US Senate race in 2022 ...
In many states, the logo of the Democratic Party was a rooster, for instance, in Alabama: Logo of the Alabama Democratic Party, 1904–1966 (left) and 1966–1996 (right) [146] [147] In the early 20th century, the traditional symbol of the Democratic Party in Indiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Ohio was the rooster, as opposed to the Republican ...
The reaction was a split in the Democratic Party that led to the formation of the "States' Rights Democratic Party"—better known as the Dixiecrats—led by Strom Thurmond. Thurmond ran as the States' Rights candidate for president in the 1948 election, losing to Truman.
State delegation to the United States House of Representatives For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes. Darker shading indicates confirmed partisan affiliation or majority; lighter shading indicates likely, but unconfirmed, partisan affiliation or majority.