Word: dixiecrats
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...name.* Humphrey preferred to remain politely vague. Nonetheless, in Mississippi he is backing the biracial insurgent delegate slate, a direct slap at the old-time leaders. And last week he coined the term Nixiecrat to disparage Nixon's association with conservative Southerners like Thurmond, who led the Dixiecrat revolt...
...addition to the authorization curback, the House voted to accept an amendment offered by Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore.) giving control over Community Action Programs to state, county and city governments. The amendment, which was designed to break up the Dixiecrat-Republican coalition, also received support from big city Democrats...
...third and fourth party to the left of the Democrats. California had seen, in the '30's, a remarkable showing by Upton Sinclair in an insurgent bid for the Governorship. But in '48 Wallace got two per cent of the vote and was narrowly edged out by a Dixiecrat (a humiliation which could easily recur...
...place at this stage of struggle. Major victories can be won against discrimination before socialism is achieved. Moreover, the fight to end Jim Crow will produce some very fundamental changes in this society. If the vote becomes a reality to the Southern Negro, for example, it would destroy the Dixiecrat-Republican conservative coalition that dominates Congress, and allow the passage of key legislation (such as genuine home rule for Washington, D.C., repeal of section 14B of the Taft-Hartley law, and so fourth). However, for the Negro, as for the white worker, full economic freedom and security can only...
Died. Frank Murray Dixon, 73, Governor of Alabama from 1939 to 1943, who maintained his political influence long after his term in office, in 1948 led the Dixiecrat revolt against Harry Truman, and in 1960, as an unpledged member of the electoral college, rejected John Kennedy's election to cast his ballot for Virginia Senator Harry Byrd; of cancer; in Birmingham...