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Dixiecrat
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Also called:
States’ Rights Democrat
Date:
1948 - present
Areas Of Involvement:
States’ rights
right
Related People:
Strom Thurmond
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Dixiecrat

political party, United States
Also known as: States’ Rights Democrat
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History

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. It met at Birmingham, Ala., and on July 17, 1948, nominated Gov. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina for president and Gov. Fielding L. Wright of Mississippi for vice president. The Dixiecrats, who opposed federal regulations they considered to interfere with states’ rights, carried South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama, to receive 39 electoral votes; their popular vote totalled over 1,000,000.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Jeff Wallenfeldt.