Volume 14 , Issue 18

Dixiecrats of 1960's & 1970's

Remember when there were conservatives in the Democrat party until the 1960's and 1970's. When Democrats became divided amongst each other, splitting into the Southern Dixiecrats American Independent Party. The short-lived Dixiecrats were formed for/by a Democrat in Southern States who opposed desegregation.


Strom Thurmond's Dixiecrat Days: Newsreel

1948 DNC: Truman's Democrats Tackle Civil Rights

The 1948 Presidential Election (NBC-TV Highlights Part 1

Maybe some of you remember Hubert Humpfrey, in one of the youtube video's above pushed for Civil Rights even in the late 1940's (1948). It was in 1948 the Democratic Party was split, forming the Dixiecrats of the Southern States, on account of civil rights and opposing desegregation. The Dixiecrats ran Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina as their presidential candidate. After Truman's victory they abandoned their presidential efforts, but continued to resist Civil Rights programs in Congress.

Many of these Dixiecrats moved to support the Republican Party in the 1964. The short-lived Dixiecrat American Independent Party was formed for the 1968 elections, with the Alabama governor George Wallace as candidate for President.

The triumph of desegregation was marked by the dissolution of the traditional Southern wing of the Democratic Party. By the 1980's the South was dominated by Republican Senators, Congressmen and Governors. The Dixiecrats and Strom Thurmond joined the Republican party in 1964, with Senator Thurmond becoming the longest serving member of the US Senate in history (1954-2002). Do you remember the Dixiecrats now?   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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