Word: dixiecrats
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...Around him, admiring the creamy brick and the green marble trim of the Hughes Spalding Pavilion, was a mixed audience of whites and Negroes. With pride, the governor pointed to the excellence of the $1,850,000 building -as good as any of its kind in the U.S. Then Dixiecrat Talmadge, apostle of white supremacy, handed the building over to Dr. Benjamin Mays in behalf of his 200,000 fellow Negro citizens in the area. The Spalding Pavilion is for Negroes only...
Substitute for Shift. The Democratic leaders relied (correctly, as it turned out) on the inability of the Southerners to do the normal thing and shift parties. But after the failure of the Dixiecrat bolt at the 1948 convention, opposition to Truman and the FEPC grew in the South. As 1952 approached, Southern leaders resolved to stop Truman and FEPC inside the party-or to bolt it and throw the victory to the Republicans, which is the South's substitute for a normal shift of votes across party lines...
Ever since the Dixiecrat revolt of 1948, politicians and pundits have been speculating about the course Southern Democrats would follow in 1952. Truman failed to heal the rift between Northern and Southern Democrats. On the other hand, most of the Dixiecrat leaders lost ground within the Democratic Party. The South's problem this time was how to oppose Truman without leaving the party. Last week the Southern leaders disclosed the first step in their program...
...White House, the Russell announcement was greeted with real concern. Harry Truman, who personally respects and likes the Georgia Senator, knows that the movement Dick Russell leads is something bigger than the ineffectual revolt of the Dixiecrat fringe in 1948. It could cause an irreparable split in the Democratic Party; it could prevent the re-election of Harry Truman or the election of the heir he chooses. It cannot be laughed...
While lambasting Truman, Byrd's main message was one of tactical caution. He said no word to encourage formation of a Dixiecrat party. "We must meet the conditions as they develop," was Byrd's theme. That meant that the anti-Truman Southerners would stay in the party, and try to win concessions at the Democratic Convention. If Truman is nominated and no concessions are forthcoming, Southern leaders might consider a candidate of their own. Their choice: Georgia's able Senator Dick Russell, who is shrewdly silent on his own attitude toward 1952. Or, if Eisenhower is nominated...