Word: dixiecrats
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Says Rivers: "I don't have any right or authority to delegate these powers under the Constitution. I do not subscribe to the philosophy that all legislation on the military should come from the Department of Defense." In more political terms, Rivers, a 13-term Congressman who supported Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond for President in 1948, Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, and the national Democratic ticket since then, says: "I've got enough John C. Calhoun in me to believe that Congress has got a mission-and I'm not going to subvert it. John C. Calhoun...
...means a shoo-in. He has no real organization in the state, relies on his own oratorical skills and his record to pull him through. Republicans are on the rise in the state; Goldwater won South Carolina by 93,000 votes-in 1964. Senator Strom Thurmond, a Dixiecrat who turned Republican last year, will be running in a separate race at the same time and, as the state's best vote-getter, will undoubtedly attract support for the entire G.O.P. state ticket...
South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond, whose recent bolt to the G.O.P. probably saddened more Republicans than it did Democrats, voiced the hope that the G.O.P. "eventually will become the conservative party in the nation, in spite of Rockefeller and his ilk." If not, added Thurmond, whose losing Dixiecrat defection from the Democratic Party in 1948 had apparently taught him nothing, "then some other party would have to arise...
...Barry traveled through the South, two breaks went his way. South Carolina's Senator J. Strom Thurmond, the Dixiecrat candidate for President in 1948, formally severed his ties to the Democratic Party, announced that he was joining the Republican Party and would campaign for Goldwater. When Barry arrived at Greenville, S.C., in his chartered jet, Strom was waiting at the ramp to embrace him, a gold elephant in one lapel and a Goldwater button in the other. Barry was delighted. "If a man like Thurmond can do it," he said, "I see no reason why Democrats by the tens...
...Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states' rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights." Returning to Minneapolis, Humphrey was hoisted in triumph on the shoulders of acclaimers. But his performance had already caused a Southern walkout and led to the Dixiecrat presidential candidacy of South Carolina's Strom Thurmond...