Word: dixiecrats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republic as "a flying squad of G.O.P. lawyers that swept through south Phoenix to question the right of minority voters to cast their ballots." The man who swore Rehnquist in as presiding officer of the trial, South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond, ran for President in 1948 on the segregationist Dixiecrat ticket. These days Thurmond would prefer that you forget that youthful indiscretion, since he was only 45 at the time...
...Kennedy and Strom Thurmond, let us say, are Old Paradigm, being yin and yang of old wars (New Deal liberalism vs. Dixiecrat conservatism) that seem somewhat beside the point now. American government is not dead, but it cannot proceed as before, on the old model. The long crisis of the Democratic Party has been its struggle to emerge from its once powerful and successful old paradigm and find...