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Dixiecrat
(redirected from States' Rights 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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was roused from wherever he was sitting shiva for Strom Thurmond and the States' Rights Party.
Who killed captain video? How the FCC strangled a TV pioneer by Garvin, Glenn / Reason
Referring to Thurmond's 1948 presidential bid as the nominee of the States' Rights Party (which defended state-imposed segregation of the races), Lott suggested that if Thurmond had won the presidential race, then "we wouldn't have had all these problems over the years.
Using hate to feed the state: the case of Trent Lott illustrates the ... by Grigg, William Norman / The New American
Thurmond didn't lead the Southern revolt at first, but after several state delegations bolted from the party's Philadelphia convention, the South Carolina governor seized the banner of the States' Rights Party and carried it with gusto.
Strom Thurmond and the Politics of Southern Change by Gross, Daniel / Washington Monthly
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