Word: dixiecratism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...strong civil rights plank in the party platform. "The time has arrived," he told the convention, "for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights." The plank was adopted, provoking the creation of the Dixiecrat Party, which threatened to cut deeply into the Democrats' normally heavy Southern vote. Defeat seemed assured for the Democratic nominee, Harry Truman. But Truman won, and so did Humphrey, who was running for the U.S. Senate...
...South Carolina's Republican Senator Strom Thurmond is the man who, as a Democratic Governor in 1948, led a Southern walkout in protest against a civil rights plank in the national Democratic platform. Running for President as a Dixiecrat, Thurmond carried four Deep South states. He switched to the Republican Party in 1968, and later became an architect of Richard Nixon's 1972 "Southern strategy." Today he eagerly displays to visitors in his office a two-page list of "accomplishments in behalf of blacks." Items: "Assisted Mrs. Victoria DeLee in expediting day-care funds for Dorchester County"; "Cosponsored bill...
Born. To Strom Thurmond, 73, fourth-term Dixiecrat-turned-Republican Senator from South Carolina, and former Beauty Queen Nancy Moore Thurmond, 29: a second son, fourth child; in Greenwood...
...Plan, Western Europe might never have survived as a community of free, capitalist democracies. A case could be made that the civil rights movement began with Truman's tough, ten-point message to Congress in 1948, which created the Federal Fair Employment Practices Committee. It also created the Dixiecrat movement, which cost him the 39 electoral votes of four Southern states in that year's election...
...harsh line toward civil rights legislation with kid gloves. In last Friday's issue Norman Miller, after discussing Ford's views on race relations, pardoned Ford's attitudes as due mainly to "pragmatism." As House minority leader, writes Miller, Ford, by maneuvering his colleagues, "enabled the GOP to accumulate Dixiecrat IOUs that Mr. Ford could call in on other bills...