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Dixiecrat
(redirected from States' Rights Democratic Party)

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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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They called themselves the States' Rights Democratic Party, or the Dixiecrats, and their presidential nominee was a prominent Governor from the region, Strom Thurmond of South Carolina.
Republicans, Democrats, and race: an uneasy history: in 1948, ... by Toner, Robin / New York Times Upfront
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