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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.
Following the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the large Black vote in the South held steady but overwhelmingly favored the Democratic Party. Even as the Democratic party came to increasingly depend on the support of African-American voters in the South, well-established White Democratic incumbents still held sway in most Southern states for decades.
The Democratic-Republican Party favored republicanism, a weak federal government, states' rights, agrarian interests (especially Southern planters), and strict adherence to the Constitution. The party opposed a national bank and Great Britain . [ 71 ]
The States' Rights Democratic Party met in Birmingham, Alabama, and nominated Strom Thurmond and Fielding L. Wright as its presidential ticket. The party supported racial segregation, poll taxes, and opposed anti-lynching legislation.
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 ...
The National States' Rights Party was a white supremacist [1] ... southern conservative States' Rights Democratic Party, although it did share some of its views.