Word: dixiecratism
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...Louisiana, a hotbed of Dixiecrat rebellion four years ago, the Democratic State Central Committee last week voted 77-9 to put the Stevenson-Sparkman ticket on the ballot under the rooster symbol, traditional emblem of the Democratic Party. The surrender was not unconditional: the committee told Louisiana citizens that they could vote for Eisenhower in November and still remain Democrats in good standing. It also repudiated the national platform planks dealing with civil rights, FEPC and Senate cloture...
...nomination he has (in theory) accepted the Democratic platform, which favors a federal civil rights program. In the past, however, he has fought such a program. Not a leading filibusterer himself, he has defended the sacred Southern right to make such filibusters. In 1948 he voted (in effect) for Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond, yet he later played a leading part in wresting control of Alabama from the Dixiecrats. This year he was one of the last of the Southern leaders to declare for Richard Russell-and then became a top Russell aide at Chicago...
...Junior Senator. The Dixiecrat dilemma nearly tore the South apart. When the election was over, Sparkman joined with Senator Lister Hill and Governor Gordon Persons in a fight to insure that that dilemma would never again horn in on Alabama. The yeoman work was done by Lister Hill. Junior Senator Sparkman, whose rudimentary personal "machine" consisted largely of north Alabama farmers and his brothers of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, led the fight against the Dixiecrats in the "loyalist" northern section of the state. Hill, whose personal following was tremendous, carried the ball in southern Alabama, a Dixiecrat stronghold. By January...
...give their opinions on who should be Veep. The field quickly narrowed down. Out went Kefauver (unacceptable in the South), Russell (unacceptable in the North), Barkley (too old), Oklahoma's Mike Monroney (not well known enough). The final choice: Senator John Sparkman of Alabama who, though no Dixiecrat, failed to support Truman in 1948. Later, one of the men present explained: "Stevenson made his decision with Harry Truman's help...
Most of the Southern Democratic leaders resolved many months ago not to encourage a repetition of the 1948 Dixiecrat revolt from the party. Instead, they hoped to mobilize their minority strength in such a way that the majority would listen to their pleas for compromise and consideration on both the platform and the choice of candidates. Their mobilization took two forms: 1) the candidacy of Georgia's Senator Russell which corralled most of the Southern delegates; 2) moves in various Southern states to leave the way open for revolt if the pressure of Russell's delegates...