Word: dixiecrats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...states' rights that Thurmond was battling for, what was the theoretical difference between him and a lot of Northern U.S. citizens who were equally apprehensive of Big Government? The main front of the Dixiecrats, indeed, was a Southern upper crust of mill owners, oil men, tobacco growers, bankers, lawyers, who might have felt more comfortable voting Republican. Would the Dixiecrat party be a kind of political decompression chamber for conservative Southerners, on their way to the Republican party? No; for Tom Dewey also advocated civil rights for the Negro. The Southerners wore their states' rights with a significant...
...minority blocs by advocating the so-called civil-rights program. This time they can not fool the people and especially the Democrats of the South. The Jeffersonian Democrats have spewed out of their mouths that mongrel outfit which captured our party at Philadelphia." That went fine in the Dixiecrat South...
...shabby mountebank," Tom Dewey as a "limber trimmer," announced that Henry Wallace had manifestly lost "what little sense he had formerly, if indeed, he ever had any at all." He grudgingly admitted that Socialist Norman Thomas seemed to have some brains, but wrote him off immediately. He thought Dixiecrat J. Strom Thurmond was "the best of all the candidates," but with a final growl, he warned that "all the worst morons in the South...
...place, Louisiana's Democratic Central Committee put the J. Strom. Thurmond-Fielding Wright Dixiecrat ticket and committed the state's ten Democratic electors to it. Unless the action is overthrown in the courts, a Louisiana voter who wants to vote for Harry Truman in November will have to write in the names of ten new Truman electors...
...survey, Editor & Publisher found 69% of U.S. dailies supporting Tom Dewey (8% more than in 1944), 16% for Harry Truman, 4% for Dixiecrat Candidate James Strom Thurmond, .28% for Henry Wallace, 11% undecided. Said one Texas editor who was supporting nobody: "We're Pixiecrats: down on Dewey, tired of Truman, weary of Wallace, doubtful of Dixiecrats...