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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.
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 ...
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.
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In the 1948 presidential election, Thurmond ran for president as a third party candidate for the States' Rights Democratic Party, which was formed by White southern Democrats who split from the national party over the threat of federal intervention in state affairs regarding racial segregation and Jim Crow laws and practices.
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The bolted delegates and other Southerners then formed the States' Rights Democratic Party ("Dixiecrats"), which nominated Strom Thurmond for president and Fielding L. Wright for vice president. The fight over the civil rights plank at the 1948 convention was a launching point for Humphrey as a political figure of national stature.
The party was sharply divided in the following election, as Southern Democrat Strom Thurmond ran for the "States' Rights Democratic Party". With the presidency of John F. Kennedy the Democratic Party began to embrace the civil rights movement and its lock on the South was irretrievably broken. Kennedy's narrow election victory and small working ...