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.

Dixiecrat, member of a right-wing Democratic splinter group in the 1948 U.S. presidential election organized by Southerners who objected to the civil rights program of the Democratic Party.

2024年9月4日 · The Dixiecrat Party broke the South's solid historic allegiance to the national Democratic Party and in doing so inaugurated an unpredictable era in which white southerners grappled with a variety of efforts to thwart racial progress.

Many Southern Democrats were so enraged at this affront to their "way of life" that they formed the Dixiecrat party [60] and nominated their own presidential candidate, Governor Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. [61] The Dixiecrats' goal was to take Southern states away from Truman and thus cause his defeat. [62]

2017年8月18日 · Democratic defectors, known as the “Dixiecrats,” started a switch to the Republican party in a movement that was later fueled by a so-called "Southern strategy."

The Dixiecrats were a group of Southern Democrats who broke away from their party in 1948 because they objected to the Democratic Party’s stance on …

2004年7月27日 · Many white voters who initially cast Dixiecrat ballots gravitated back toward the Democratic Party only grudgingly, and they remained nominal Democrats at best. Ultimately, the Dixiecrat movement paved the way for the rise of the modern Republican Party in the South.

They remained in the Democratic fold, restive, until the candidacy of Republican conservative Barry Goldwater liberated them in 1964 by refreshing some of the Dixiecrat ideologies and therefore accelerated the transition from a solid South for the Democrats to one for the Republicans. Strom Thurmond switched to the Republican Party that year ...

The historical roots of the Dixiecrat movement go deep into U.S. history — the Dixiecrat core ideologies of “ states ’ rights ” and white supremacy have their roots in the antebellum South and the political philosophy of John Calhoun (1782 – 1850).

2025年3月25日 · The term 'Dixiecrat' refers to a political faction in the United States, officially known as the States' Rights Democratic Party, which emerged in 1948. This group consisted of Southern Democrats who split from the Democratic Party in response to President Harry S. Truman's support for civil rights.