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This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. (help, get involved!) Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. This article has been tagged since June 2007. The Dixiecrats were 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 an oppressive federal government[1]. The Rex Theatre for Colored People Racial segregation is characterized by separation of different races in daily life, such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a water fountain, using a rest room, attending school, going to the movies, or in the rental or purchase of a home[1]. Segregation... Populism is a political ideology or rhetorical style that holds that the common person is oppressed by the elite in society, which exists only to serve its own interests, and therefore, the instruments of the State need to be grasped from this self-serving elite and instead used for the... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The Democratic Party is one of two major political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. ... This article is 88 kilobytes or more in size. ... The U.S. Constitution, adopted in 1789 by a constitutional convention, sets down the basic framework of American government in its seven articles. ... Historically, the solidly Democratic South had emerged in the wake of Reconstruction, the period following the Civil War when the Republican Party worked to help African-Americans make the transition from slavery to freedom, and to secure their civil, political and voting rights. When white Southerners regained political control of Southern state governments in the 1870s, partly with the aid of organizations like the Ku Klux Klan, the region gave its political allegiance to the Democratic Party. The phrase Solid South describes the electoral support of the Southern United States for Democratic Party candidates for almost a century after the Reconstruction era, 1876-1964. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total... The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... Languages Predominantly American English Religions Protestantism (chiefly Baptist and Methodist); Roman Catholicism; Islam Related ethnic groups Sub-Saharan Africans and other African groups, some with Native American groups. ... Slave redirects here. ... Civil rights or positive rights are those legal rights retained by citizens and protected by the government. ... Elections Part of the Politics series Politics Portal This box:      Suffrage (from the Latin suffragium, meaning vote) is the civil right to vote, or the exercise of that right. ... Members of the second Ku Klux Klan at a rally during the 1920s. ... The term Dixiecrat is a portmanteau of Dixie, referring to the Southern United States, and Democrat, referring to the United States Democratic Party. Initially, it referred to a splinter (or offshoot) from the party in the 1948 U.S. presidential election: for over a century, white Southerners had overwhelmingly been Democrats, but in 1948 many bolted the party and supported Strom Thurmond's third-party candidacy for president of the United States. A portmanteau (IPA pronunciation: RP, US) is a word or morpheme that fuses two or more words or word parts to give a combined or loaded meaning. ... DIXIE is an obsolete protocol for accessing X.500 directory services. ... This article is 88 kilobytes or more in size. ... The Democratic Party is one of two major political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. ... Presidential electoral votes by state. ... James Strom Thurmond (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American politician who served as governor of South Carolina and as a United States Senator representing that state. ... In any two-party system of politics, a third party is a party other than the two dominant ones. ... The presidential seal is a well-known symbol of the presidency. ... Over the next several decades, as the white South slowly re-aligned from the Democrats to the Republicans, the term came to have a broader usage. For example, it was used to refer to those members of the Electoral College who voted for Harry F. Byrd rather than John F. Kennedy in the election of 1960, and to the white Southern voters and electors who supported George C. Wallace in 1968. The Dixiecrats were defeated by Michael Pasquith in 1964. The United States Electoral College is the electoral college that chooses the President and Vice President of the United States at the conclusion of each Presidential election. ... Harry Flood Byrd, Sr. ... John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), also referred to as John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, John Kennedy, Jack Kennedy, or JFK, was the thirty-fifth President of the United States. ... Presidential electoral votes by state. ... George Corley Wallace (August 25, 1919–September 13, 1998) was an American politician who was elected Governor of Alabama (as a Democrat) four times (1962, 1970, 1974 and 1982) and ran for U.S. President (in 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1976). ... Presidential electoral votes by state. ... Contents 1 1948 presidential election 2 Subsequent elections 3 Notable members 3.1 Senators 3.2 State governors 3.3 Others 4 See also 5 References 6 External links [edit] 1948 presidential election 1948 electoral votes by state. The Dixiecrats carried Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina, and received one additional electoral vote in Tennessee. The blue–red color scheme is opposite that adopted for the 2000 election. See also main article, U.S. presidential election, 1948 The States' Rights Democratic Party was a short-lived splinter group that broke from the Democratic Party in 1948. The States' Rights Democratic Party opposed racial integration and wanted to retain Jim Crow laws and racial segregation. The party's slogan was "Segregation Forever!" Members of the States' Rights Democratic Party were often known as Dixiecrats. Download high resolution version (1182x635, 108 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: U.S. presidential election, 1948 Categories: National Atlas images ... Download high resolution version (1182x635, 108 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: U.S. presidential election, 1948 Categories: National Atlas images ... Presidential electoral votes by state. ... The Democratic Party is one of two major political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. ... Children at a parade in North College Hill, Ohio Racial integration, or simply integration includes desegregation (the process of ending systematic racial segregation). ... The term Jim Crow laws refers to a series of laws enacted mostly in the Southern United States in the later half of the 19th century that restricted most of the new privileges granted to African-Americans after the Civil War. ... The Rex Theatre for Colored People Racial segregation is characterized by separation of different races in daily life, such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a water fountain, using a rest room, attending school, going to the movies, or in the rental or purchase of a home[1]. Segregation... The party was formed after 35 delegates from Mississippi and Alabama walked out of the 1948 Democratic National Convention. The walkout was prompted by a controversial speech by then-Mayor Hubert Humphrey of Minneapolis, Minnesota urging the party to adopt an anti-segregationist plank in its platform, which it did. Even before the convention started, the Southern delegates were upset by President Harry S. Truman's executive order to racially integrate the armed forces. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Official language(s) English Capital Montgomery Largest city Birmingham Area  Ranked 30th  - Total 52,419 sq mi (135,765 km²)  - Width 190 miles (306 km)  - Length 330 miles (531 km)  - % water 3. ... Featured at the Democratic National Convention are speeches by prominent party figures. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger, greater) is the modern title of the highest ranking municipal officer. ... Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. ... “Minneapolis” redirects here. ... Look up Plank in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A political platform is a list of the principles which a political party supports in order to appeal to the general public for the purpose of having said partys candidates voted into office. ... The presidential seal is a well-known symbol of the presidency. ... Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the thirty-third President of the United States (1945–1953); as Vice President, he succeeded to the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. ... The Chicago Defender announces Executive Order 9981. ... After President Truman's endorsement of the civil rights plank, Strom Thurmond, governor of South Carolina, helped organize the walkout delegates into a separate party, whose platform was ostensibly concerned with states' rights. The Dixiecrats held their convention in Birmingham, Alabama, where they nominated Thurmond for president and Fielding L. Wright, governor of Mississippi, for vice president. Dixiecrat leaders worked to have Thurmond-Wright declared the official Democratic Party ticket in Southern states. They succeeded only in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina; in other states, they were forced to run as a third-party ticket. These included Arkansas, whose governor-elect, Sid McMath, a young prosecutor and decorated World War II Marine veteran, vigorously supported Truman in speeches across the region, much to the consternation of the sitting governor, Ben Laney, an ardent Thurmond supporter. Laney later used McMath's pro-Truman stance against him in the 1950 governatorial election, which McMath won handily. Efforts to paint other Truman loyalists as turncoats generally failed, although the seeds of discontent were planted which in years to come took their toll on Southern moderates. Among these moderates was Rep. Brooks Hays of the 2nd District of Arkansas, whose efforts at reconciliation during the 1957 Little Rock School Crisis made him vulnerable to defeat in 1958 by a segregationist surrogate fielded by forces loyal to then-Governor Orval Faubus, who had used the National Guard to bar entry to black pupils in defiance of a federal court order. Civil rights or positive rights are those legal rights retained by citizens and protected by the government. ... James Strom Thurmond (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American politician who served as governor of South Carolina and as a United States Senator representing that state. ... Official language(s) English Capital Charleston(1670-1789) Columbia(1790-present) Largest city Columbia Largest metro area Columbia Area  Ranked 40th  - Total 34,726 sq mi (82,965 km²)  - Width 200 miles (320 km)  - Length 260 miles (420 km)  - % water 6  - Latitude 32° 2′ N to 35° 13′ N  - Longitude... States rights refers to the idea, in U.S. politics and constitutional law, that U.S. states possess certain rights and political powers in relation to the federal government. ... Nickname: Location in Jefferson County in the state of Alabama Coordinates: , Country United States State Alabama County Jefferson, Shelby Government  - Mayor Bernard Kincaid (D) Area  - City  151. ... Fielding Lewis Wright (May 16, 1895 – May 4, 1956) was a Democratic politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1944 to 1946, then as Governor after the incumbent, Thomas L. Bailey, died in office in 1946. ... Official language(s) de jure: none de facto: English & French Capital Baton Rouge Largest city New Orleans [1] Area  Ranked 31st  - Total 51,885 sq mi (134,382 km²)  - Width 130 miles (210 km)  - Length 379 miles (610 km)  - % water 16  - Latitude 29°N to 33°N  - Longitude 89°W... Sidney Sanders McMath (June 14, 1912 – October 4, 2003) was a decorated U.S. Marine, renowned attorney and progressive Democratic reform Governor of Arkansas (1949–1953) who, in defiance of his states political establishment, championed rapid rural electrification, massive highway and school construction, the building of the University of... Brooks Lawrence Hays (9 August 1898_11 October 1981) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from the State of Arkansas. ... Orval Eugene Faubus (7 January 1910 – 14 December 1994) was a six-term Democratic Governor of Arkansas, having served from 1955-1967. ... On election day 1948, the Thurmond-Wright ticket carried the previously solid Democratic states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina, receiving 1,169,021 popular votes and 39 electoral votes. Henry A. Wallace drew off a nearly equal number of popular votes (1,157,172) from the Democrats' left wing, although he did not carry any states. The split in the Democratic party in the 1948 election was seen as virtually guaranteeing a victory by the Republican nominee, Thomas E. Dewey of New York, yet Truman was able to narrowly win election. Presidential electoral votes by state. ... The phrase Solid South describes the electoral support of the Southern United States for Democratic Party candidates for almost a century after the Reconstruction era, 1876-1964. ... Official language(s) de jure: none de facto: English & French Capital Baton Rouge Largest city New Orleans [1] Area  Ranked 31st  - Total 51,885 sq mi (134,382 km²)  - Width 130 miles (210 km)  - Length 379 miles (610 km)  - % water 16  - Latitude 29°N to 33°N  - Longitude 89°W... The United States Electoral College is the electoral college that chooses the President and Vice President of the United States at the conclusion of each Presidential election. ... Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965) was the 33rd Vice President of the United States (1941–45), the 11th Secretary of Agriculture (1933–40), and the 10th Secretary of Commerce (1945–46). ... The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... Thomas Edmund Dewey (b. ... NY redirects here. ... [edit] Subsequent elections The States' Rights Democratic Party dissolved after the 1948 election. Regardless of the power struggle within the Democratic Party concerning segregation policy, the South remained a strongly Democratic voting block for local, state, and federal Congressional elections. This was not true of Presidential elections. In 1960, Democratic electors in Alabama and Mississippi appeared on the ballot as "unpledged electors" instead of as electors pledged to Democratic nominee John F. Kennedy. All 8 of Mississippi's electors, 6 of Alabama's 11 electors, and one stray elector from Oklahoma (a state carried by Richard Nixon) cast their votes for Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia. Alabama's remaining 5 electors voted for Kennedy. John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), also referred to as John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, John Kennedy, Jack Kennedy, or JFK, was the thirty-fifth President of the United States. ... Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. ... Harry Flood Byrd, Sr. ... In 1968, Alabama's Democratic former governor George C. Wallace ran for President on the American Independent Party ticket, and swept the electoral votes of the Deep South. The American Independent Party failed to keep its foothold in the South, as its 1972 candidate was John G. Schmitz, a John Bircher from California whose strongest showing in the 1972 election was 10% in Idaho, but did poorly in the South. Subsequent southern Dixiecrats running on the American Independent Party ticket included Lester Maddox and John Rarick but these campaigns did not fare so well either. George Corley Wallace (August 25, 1919–September 13, 1998) was an American politician who was elected Governor of Alabama (as a Democrat) four times (1962, 1970, 1974 and 1982) and ran for U.S. President (in 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1976). ... The American Independent Party is a California political party. ... John George Schmitz (August 12, 1930–January 10, 2001) was an ultraconservative Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Orange County, California, prominent member of the John Birch Society, and the American Independent Party candidate for President of the United States in 1972. ... The John Birch Society is a conservative American exceptionalist organization founded in 1958 to fight what it saw as growing threats to the Constitution of the United States, especially a suspected communist infiltration of the United States government, and to support free enterprise. ... Lester Garfield Maddox Lester Garfield Maddox (September 30, 1915 – June 25, 2003) was an American Democratic Party politician who was governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971. ... John Richard Rarick (born January 29, 1924 in Waterford, Indiana)) is a lawyer, former Congressman, and former Presidential candidate. ... In the 1960s, the courting of white Southern Democratic voters was the basis of the "southern strategy" of the Republican Party's Presidential Campaigns. Republican Presidential Candidate Barry Goldwater carried the Deep South in 1964, despite losing in a landslide in the rest of the nation to President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas. Johnson surmised that his advocacy behind passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would lose the South for the Democratic party and it did. When the Democrats pushed for civil rights, the Republicans reaped the political benefits of a Southern white backlash. The only Democratic presidential candidate after 1956 to solidly carry the Deep South was President Jimmy Carter in the 1976 election. The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to the focus of the Republican party on winning U.S. Presidential elections by securing the electoral votes of the U.S. Southern states. ... Barry Morris Goldwater (January 1, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–87) and the Republican Partys nominee for president in the 1964 election. ... Regional definitions vary from source to source. ... “LBJ” redirects here. ... Official language(s) No official language See languages of Texas Capital Austin Largest city Houston Largest metro area Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex Area  Ranked 2nd  - Total 261,797 sq mi (678,051 km²)  - Width 773 miles (1,244 km)  - Length 790 miles (1,270 km)  - % water 2. ... President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. ... James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr. ... Senator Strom Thurmond switched parties and became a Republican as a result of his support for the Barry Goldwater campaign in 1964. Jesse Helms also switched his party registration to Republican in 1970 and won a Senate seat in North Carolina in 1972. Phil Gramm of Texas, at the time a member of the House of Representatives, switched his party registration from Democrat to Republican in 1983. Several other Southern senators, such as Richard Russell, Jr. of Georgia and James Eastland and John Stennis of Mississippi remained in the Democratic Party and went on to become prominent senators who served multiple terms in the service of their respective states. These long careers in the Senate elevated their seniority and put them in positions of power and prestige. Barry Morris Goldwater (January 1, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–87) and the Republican Partys nominee for president in the 1964 election. ... Jesse Alexander Helms, Jr. ... William Philip Phil Gramm (born July 8, 1942, in Fort Benning, Georgia) served as a Democratic Congressman (1978–1983), a Republican Congressman (1983–1985) and a Republican Senator from Texas (1985–2002). ... Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ... Richard Brevard Russell, Jr. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... John Cornelius Stennis (August 3, 1901 - April 23, 1995) was a Senator from the state of Mississippi. ... Into the late 20th century, the South changed from a Democratic monolith to a majority Republican sector of the country with GOP gains in state legislatures. This change, which became quite evident in 1972 with the electoral success of Richard Nixon's "Southern Strategy", peaked with the elections of Ronald Reagan in 1980 and George Bush in 1988, and was consolidated in 1994 when Republicans gained a majority in the House of Representatives under the leadership of Newt Gingrich. (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. ... In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to the focus of the Republican party on winning U.S. Presidential elections by securing the electoral votes of the U.S. Southern states. ... Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). ... George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) was the 41st President of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. ... The Republican Revolution refers to the success of Republican Party in the 1994 U.S. midterm elections, which resulted in a net gain of 54 seats in the House of Representatives, and a pickup of eight seats in the Senate. ... Newton Leroy Gingrich (born June 17, 1943), Ph. ... [edit] Notable members [edit] Senators (D)VA Harry F. Byrd, 1933-1965 (D)VA A. Willis Robertson, 1946-1966 (D)MS John C. Stennis, 1947-1989 (D)MS James O. Eastland, 1941-1941, 1943-1978 (D)LA Allen J. Ellender, 1937-1972 (D)LA Russell B. Long, 1948-1987 (D)NC Sam Ervin, 1954-1974 (D)NC Everett Jordan, 1958-1973 (R)NC Jesse Helms, 1973-2003 (D)OK Thomas Pryor Gore, 1906-1921, 1931-1937 (D)AL J. Lister Hill, 1938-1969 (D)AL John J. Sparkman, 1946-1979 (D)FL Spessard Holland, 1946-1971 (D)FL George Smathers, 1951-1969 (D)SC Olin D. Johnston, 1945-1965 (D,R)SC Strom Thurmond, 1954-1956, 1956-2003 (D)AR John McClellan, 1943-1977 (D)GA Richard B. Russell, Jr., 1933-1971 (D)GA Herman E. Talmadge, 1957-1981 (D)TN Herbert S. Walters, 1963-1964 (R)MS Trent Lott, 1989- Federal courts Supreme Court Chief Justice Associate Justices Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Local Government Other countries Politics Portal      The United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the bicameral United States Congress, the... Harry Flood Byrd, Sr. ... Absalom Willis Robertson (May 27, 1887 - November 1, 1971) was a politician from the state of Virginia. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... James Oliver Eastland (November 28, 1904–February 19, 1986) was an American politician from Mississippi who served in the U.S. Senate briefly in 1941 and again from 1943 to 1978. ... Allen Joseph Ellender (September 24, 1890 - July 27, 1972) was a U.S. political figure from Houma, Louisiana who served as a Democratic United States Senator from Louisiana from 1937 until his death in 1972. ... Russell Billiu Long Russell Billiu Long (November 3, 1918 – May 9, 2003) was an American politician who served in the United States Senate as a Democrat from Louisiana from 1948 until 1987. ... Samuel James Ervin Jr. ... Benjamin Everett Jordan (8 September 1896 - 15 March 1974) was a Democratic U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina between 1958 and 1973. ... Jesse Alexander Helms, Jr. ... Thomas Pryor Gore (December 10, 1870 - March 16, 1949) was a Democratic politician. ... Joseph Lister Hill (December 29, 1894–December 21, 1984) was a U.S. senator from the state of Alabama. ... John Jackson Sparkman (December 20, 1899 - November 16, 1985) was a United States politician from Alabama. ... Spessard Lindsey Holland (July 10, 1892–November 6, 1971) was an American politician. ... George Smathers George Armistead Smathers (born November 14, 1913) is an American lawyer and politician who represented Florida in the United States Senate for eighteen years, from 1951 until 1969, as a member of the Democratic Party. ... Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston (November 18, 1896 - April 18, 1965) was a Politician from the U.S. State of South Carolina. ... James Strom Thurmond (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American politician who served as governor of South Carolina and as a United States Senator representing that state. ... John Little McClellan (25 February 1896 – 28 November 1977) was a member of the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives from Arkansas. ... A statue of Russell is placed in the rotunda of the Russell Senate Office Building. ... Herman Eugene Talmadge (August 9, 1913 - March 21, 2002) was an American politician who served as Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia briefly in 1947 and again from 1948 to 1955, and as a U.S. Senator from 1957 until 1981. ... Herbert S. Walters (November 17, 1881–October 17, 1973) was a Democratic United States Senator from Tennessee from 1963 to 1964. ... Chester Trent Lott, Sr. ... [edit] State governors Benjamin Travis Laney, Arkansas Governor Fielding Wright, Mississippi Governor Frank M. Dixon, Former Alabama Governor William H. Murray, Former Oklahoma Governor Mills E. Godwin Jr. Governor of Virginia Benjamin Travis Laney (25 November 1896–21 January 1977) was a Democratic Governor of Arkansas. ... Fielding Lewis Wright (May 16, 1895 - May 4, 1956) was a Mississippi politician who served as lieutenant governor (1944-1946) and became governor after the death of Thomas L. Bailey. ... Frank Murray Dixon (July 25, 1892–October 11, 1965) was an American Democratic politician who was the Governor of Alabama from 1939 to 1943. ... William Henry Davis Alfalfa Bill Murray (November 21, 1869 – October 15, 1956) was an American teacher, lawyer, and politician who served as a Congressman representing Oklahoma in the U.S. House and would serve as Oklahoma’s first Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives and ninth Governor of Oklahoma. ... Mills Edwin Godwin, Jr. ... [edit] Others Floyd Spence state representative from South Carolina Albert Watson while U.S. Representative from South Carolina Walter Sillers JR, Mississippi Speaker of the House Harvey T. Ross, Mississippi State Legislature Thomas P. Brady, Associate Justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court Gessner T. McCorvey, Alabama state Democratic Executive Committee Chairman Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas (1955-1967) during the Little Rock Nine Crisis and presidential candidate. Leander Perez, Parish Judge in St. Bernard Parish and political boss of the parish. Horace C. Wilkinson, Birmingham attorney defender of the Klan and political "leader" Ross Lillard Tommy Irvin, Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture since 1972 John Kasper Mrs. Anna B. Korn Mrs. Ruth Lackey Clark Hurd William E. Jenner Francis Haskell John Oliver Emmerich, Speech writer Hugh Roy Cullen - NOTE: check state legislature history for name and/or association. Floyd Davidson Spence (April 9, 1928-August 16, 2001) was a Republican politician from South Carolina. ... Albert William Watson (August 30, 1922 - September 25, 1994) was a South Carolina politician. ... Orval Eugene Faubus (7 January 1910 – 14 December 1994) was a six-term Democratic Governor of Arkansas, having served from 1955-1967. ... Official language(s) English Capital Little Rock Largest city Little Rock Area  Ranked 29th  - Total 53,179 sq mi (137,002 km²)  - Width 239 miles (385 km)  - Length 261 miles (420 km)  - % water 2. ... Bottom Row, Left to Right: Thelma Mothershed, Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Gloria Ray; Top Row, Left to Right: Jefferson Thomas, Melba Pattillo, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls, Daisy Bates (NAACP President), Ernest Green The Little Rock Nine or the Little Rock Crisis refers to an incident in which nine African-American... Leander Henry Perez, Sr. ... St. ... T. Coleman Andrews John Steel Baston Dr. Frazier O. L. Penny Clifton Ratlift M. F. Ray Thomas Jefferson Tubb J.K. Wells Barney Wolverton Governor White Thomas H. Werdel Thomas Coleman Andrews (February 19, 1899 - October 15, 1983) was an accountant and a candidate for President of the United States. ... [edit] See also Blue Dog Democrats Boll weevil (politics) Conservative Democrat List of political parties in the United States Southern Democrats George Wallace Politics of the Southern United States Republican Party (United States) Yellow dog Democrat Blue Dog Democrats are social and economic conservatives and moderates in the United States Democratic Party. ... Boll weevils was an American political term used in the mid- and late-20th century to describe conservative Southern Democrats. ... In American politics, Conservative Democrat is a term referring to a member of the Democratic Party who holds some conservative political views. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Chief Justice Associate Justices Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Local Government Other countries Politics Portal      This list of political parties in the United States contains past and present political parties in the... Southern Democrats are members of the U.S. Democratic Party who reside in the U.S. South. ... George Corley Wallace, Jr. ... Politics of the Southern United States (or Southern politics) refers to the political landscape of the Southern United States. ... The Republican Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States of America, along with the Democratic Party. ... Yellow Dog Democrats are voters in the southern region of the United States who consistently vote for Democratic candidates in the late 19th and early 21st centuries because of lingering resentment against the Republicans dating back to the Civil War and Reconstruction period. ... [edit] References ^ See excellent description in Inside USA Gunther, J ( London, Hamish Hamilton 1947) pp 675-678 The Hamish Hamilton logo Hamish Hamilton is a British book publisher, founded eponymously by the half-Scot half-American Jamie Hamilton (Hamish is the Celtic form). ... [edit] External links Scott E. 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Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Circuit Courts of Appeal District Courts Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Local Government Other countries Atlas  Politics Portal      Further information: Politics of the United States#Organization of American political parties The Democratic... The Republican Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States of America, along with the Democratic Party. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ... In United States politics, the Green Party has been active as a third party since the 1980s. ... The Libertarian Party is an American political party founded on Dec. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... 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	Dixiecrat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1038 words) The term Dixiecrat is a portmanteau of Dixie, referring to the Southern United States, and Democrat, referring to the United States Democratic Party. The Dixiecrats held their convention in Birmingham, Alabama, where they nominated Thurmond for president and Fielding L. Wright, governor of Mississippi, for vice president. The American Independent Party failed to keep its foothold in the South, as its 1972 candidate was John G. Schmitz, a John Bircher from California whose strongest showing in the 1972 election was 10% in Idaho, but did poorly in the South.
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