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Bookmark or Share- Dixiecrats | Definition, History & List - Lesson | Study.comDixiecrats were Southern Democrats who, in 1948, broke away from the Democratic Party to form their own splinter political party based on upholding racial segregation and Southern culture.
- Dixiecrats - New Georgia EncyclopediaThe Dixiecrats were members of the States’ Rights Democratic Party, which splintered from the Democratic Party in 1948. The faction consisted of malcontented southern delegates to the Democratic Party who protested the insertion of a civil rights plank in the party platform and U.S. president Harry S. Truman’s advocacy of that plank.
- How the ‘Party of Lincoln’ Won Over the Once Democratic SouthDemocratic 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."
- Dixiecrat - WikipediaThe 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.
- Dixiecrats - U-S-History.comMeeting in Birmingham, Alabama, the Dixiecrats nominated South Carolina governor Strom Thurmond as their presidential candidate, and Mississippi governor Field J. Wright, as their vice-presidential nominee. The party platform represented the openly racist views of most white southerners of the time.
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