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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.
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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Party officials argued for states' rights against the advance of the civil rights movement, and the organization itself established relations with the Ku Klux Klan and Minutemen. [3] Although a white supremacist movement, [4] its messaging was never openly neo-Nazi in the way that its successors in the American Nazi Party were. [5]
This is a list of official state and territorial party organizations of the United States Democratic Party. State and territorial organizations ...
Although several Democratic candidates would win a majority of the counties in these regions in future presidential elections, notably Texas native Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, these regions were amongst the first in the state to begin splitting their tickets by voting for Republicans on the national level while continuing to vote Democratic at ...
Strom Thurmond, the governor of South Carolina, who had led a walkout of a large group of delegates from Mississippi and Alabama at the 1948 convention, also ran against Truman as a Dixiecrat, campaigning for states' rights. With a split of the Democratic Party, most polls and political writers predicted victory for Dewey and gave Truman little ...