Word: dixiecrats
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Pressure groups on both sides were working hard, stirring up constituents to wire or telephone their Congressmen. When the voting came, the Republican leadership stuck solidly by their Dixiecrat allies. But 64 rank & file Republicans deserted their leaders to join a solid front of Northern Democrats in smashing the great Cox rebellion by a decisive vote...
When she had finished, a Negro woman walked to the platform to hand Mrs. Waring a small bouquet of roses wrapped in tissue paper, was fondly hugged in return. The next day's brickbats were wrapped in white rage. "Beneath comment," snorted Dixiecrat Governor J. Strom Thurmond. On the floor of the state legislature, Representative Joe Wise, a 23-year-old Air Forces veteran, added: "We need no words such as hers from a damyankee...
...showed up, ragged, half-blind and half-deaf, at the Dixiecrat States' Rights convention in 1948. Stubbornly he refused to let any of his four sons take him in.'To anyone who was interested he would give his still booming opinion on how the Government was presently being run. "Lousy!" Bill would roar...
...Democratic majorities, Harry Truman commanded no stable following in either House. Politically, Congress was considerably more conservative than the President. His leadership was frequently overturned on critical issues by a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats, an unstable alliance which provided no consistent leadership of its own. A Republican-Dixiecrat coalition filibustered and voted to death his civil-rights program. A wider coalition of Democrats and Republicans crushingly repudiated another major Truman election promise: repeal of the Taft-Hartley law. The Senate rejected three of his personal appointees. Congress ignored his request for compulsory health insurance, refused...
Inseparable Connection. One by one, National Committee members accused of Dixiecrat activities marched before the credentials committee. Some pleaded that it was all a mistake-deep down inside they had been for Truman all along. Others were truculently defiant. After hearing them out, the credentials committee unanimously recommended the purging of five Southerners. The committee briskly voted approval. It was the first such expulsion since...