Dixiecrat was created in 1948.
J. Strom Thurmond
They fought against expanding civil rights.
They did not support Truman's civil right policies
They did not support Truman's civil right policies
Henry A. Wallace
Southern Dixiecrats were conservative Democrats who dominated politics in the South during the mid-20th century. They supported racial segregation and opposed civil rights reforms, as well as advocating for states' rights. The Dixiecrat movement peaked in the 1948 presidential election when they ran a third-party candidate, Strom Thurmond.
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The Dixiecrat party of 1948 was led by Strom Thurmond, who was the governor of South Carolina at the time. The party was formed in response to the Democratic Party's support for civil rights and aimed to uphold segregationist policies. Thurmond ran as the party's presidential candidate in the 1948 election, emphasizing states' rights and racial segregation. The Dixiecrats ultimately garnered a significant share of the Southern vote but did not win any electoral votes.
They fought against expanding civil rights.
President of the United States - He ran in 1948 as the segregationist States Rights Democratic Party (Dixiecrat) candidate, receiving 2.4% of the popular vote and 39 electoral votes.
The Dixiecrat party was a segregationist, populist, socially conservative splinter party of the Democratic Party in the mid-20th century who were determined to protect what they saw as the Southern "way of life" against what they perceived as an oppressive federal government.
Thomas E. Dewey of New York was the Republican who lost to Truman in 1948. Truman also beat Strom Thurmond, Dixiecrat, of SC and Henry Wallace, Progressive, of Iowa .