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Dixiecrat

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Dixiecrat

 or States' Rights Democrat

In the U.S., member of a right-wing Democratic splinter group in the 1948 election. Organized by Southerners who objected to the Democrats' civil rights program, the Dixiecrats met in Birmingham, Ala., and nominated Gov. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina for president. He received more than one million votes in the 1948 election and won four states.
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By contrast, Clinton wanted the Democratic Party to renew its "common ground" with those who left the party with Strom Thurmond and the Dixiecrats and those who jumped ship when Ronald Reagan rose to power: white men.
The packaging of Obama by Gray, Kevin Alexander / The Progressive
An example is the illustration of a tombstone for the Dixiecrat Party that reads, "This Ain't a Colored Cemetery, Is It?
America the unbelievable: a history textbook becomes a national ... by Ravitch, Diane / Education Next
Trent Lott as majority leader upon his waxing nostalgic for Strom Thurmond's good ol" Dixiecrat segregationist days and Howell Raines as editor of The New York Times following the Jason Blair debacle.
Bloggers emerge as fact checkers of new age by Parker, Kathleen / Los Angeles Business Journal
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