Word: dixiecratism
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...Dixiecrat-Republican coalition is strong enough to defeat the twin statehood bill, as it now seems, a proposal for Hawaiian statehood alone probably could gain the support necessary for Congressional approval. This is what many Republicans hope, and though such tactics are deplorable, they must be faced for what they are. Statehood for Hawaii should not be held up for partisan reasons, even if it means that Alaska will have to wait for a more hospitable Democratic Congress. A climate favorable for joint admission may not come for a decade...
Himself an ardent admirer of Ike Eisenhower, Texan Johnson obviously was trying to use the President's great popularity to build up the strength of the Democratic Party. In Mississippi, where the party has been badly split (in 1948 the state went Dixiecrat; in 1952 Ike got 39% of the vote, the best any Republican has done since reconstruction days), Johnson's new line was exactly what the Democrats wanted to hear. They cheered him lustily, and held long huddles with Steve Mitchell, the first Democratic national chairman who ever worked at his job in Mississippi...
...uttered crass equivocations designed to win the votes-and the contributions-of the Dixiecrat millionaires...
Virginia. This seems to be the Southern state in which Stevenson is in greatest peril. In 1948, Virginia voted 41.4% Republican, plus 10.4% Dixiecrat. Eisenhower is far more popular than Dewey was in 1948, but Stevenson is more popular than Truman was. Leaders of the Byrd machine, one of the most effective (and cleanest) in the U.S., have agreed to disagree in the 1952 election. Some are working for Stevenson, some for Ike and some are following the example of the boss, Senator Harry F. Byrd, who is "picking apples" and not saying how he will vote. If Byrd comes...
...politician or pundit would call it more than a fighting chance. The only Republican presidential candidate who ever carried Texas was Herbert Hoover, who got 26,000 more votes than Al Smith in 1928, with a strong religious issue on his side. In 1948, despite the Dixiecrat movement, Harry Truman carried 247 of Texas' 254 counties and won the state by more than half a million votes. Even in Texas, where almost everything is done in a big way, it will take a real political tornado to uproot that many Democrats...