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Bookmark or Share- The Big Switch That Wasn’t: The Dixiecrats, Race and 1964According to one historical analysis, of the 1500+ racist “Dixiecrats” only Strom Thurmond and about a dozen others left the Democratic Party for the GOP (less than 1%). Furthermore, Thurmond didn’t switch parties until 16 years after Truman forced his hand to create his “Dixiecrat” party.
- 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 political party in the United States, active primarily in the South.
- Dixiecrats - Encyclopedia.comThe historical roots of the Dixiecrat movement go deep into U.S. history — the Dixiecrat core ideologies of “ states ’ rights ” and white supremacy have their roots in the antebellum South and the political philosophy of John Calhoun (1782 – 1850).
- 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.
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