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Bookmark or Share- 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."
- Dixiecrats - Encyclopedia of AlabamaThe Dixiecrat Party broke the South's solid historic allegiance to the national Democratic Party and in doing so inaugurated an unpredictable era in which white southerners grappled with a variety of efforts to thwart racial progress.
- 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 EncyclopediaMany white voters who initially cast Dixiecrat ballots gravitated back toward the Democratic Party only grudgingly, and they remained nominal Democrats at best. Ultimately, the Dixiecrat movement paved the way for the rise of the modern Republican Party in the South.
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