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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 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.
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Progressive Democratic Party: South Carolina Progressivism [141] Split from: Democratic Party: 1944 1948 Women's Equality Party: New York Feminism [142] 2014 2018 Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party: Mississippi Desegregation [143] Merged into: Democratic Party: 1964 1964 Choctaw Youth Movement: Oklahoma Choctaw nationalism: 1969 1975 Labor ...
The Democratic Party evolved from the Jeffersonian Republican or Democratic-Republican Party organized by Jefferson and Madison in opposition to the Federalist Party. [70] The Democratic-Republican Party favored republicanism , a weak federal government , states' rights , agrarian interests (especially Southern planters), and strict adherence ...
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.
Fielding Lewis Wright (May 16, 1895 – May 4, 1956) was an American politician who served as the 19th lieutenant governor and 49th and 50th governor of Mississippi.During the 1948 presidential election he served as the vice presidential nominee of the States' Rights Democratic Party (Dixiecrats) alongside presidential nominee Strom Thurmond.
This is a list of official state and territorial party organizations of the United States Democratic Party. State and territorial organizations ...