tinydancer
Diamond Member
That's different. Somehow. It just is. You racist!Both Lester Maddox and George Wallace LEFT the Democrat party and joined the American Independent Party, running for further office that way.
You might want to do some RESEARCH before holding up examples like that, Dillow Willow.
The majority of Dixiecrat segregationists stayed Democrat.
Truth. This was part of their platform.
" We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race; the constitutional right to choose one's associates; to accept private employment without governmental interference, and to learn one's living in any lawful way. We oppose the elimination of segregation, the repeal of miscegenation statutes, the control of private employment by Federal bureaucrats called for by the misnamed civil rights program. We favor home-rule, local self-government and a minimum interference with individual rights.
The platform went on to say:
We call upon all DEMOCRATS and upon all other loyal Americans who are opposed to totaltarianism at home and abroad to unite with us in ignominously defeating Harry S. Truman, Thomas E. Dewey and every other candidate for public office who would establish a Police Nation in the United States of America.
Right, USMB lefties?
It never ceases to amaze me that the truth in history could be just so elusive to liberals.
There were only 3 that switched to the Republicans despite the myths they like to cling to.
"The strategy of the States Rights Democratic Party failed. Truman was elected and civil rights moved forward with support from both Republicans and Democrats.
This begs an answer to the question: So where did the Dixiecrats go?
Contrary to legend, it makes no sense for them to join with the Republican Party whose history is replete with civil rights achievements.
The answer is, they returned to the Democrat party and rejoined others such as George Wallace, Orval Faubus, Lester Maddox, and Ross Barnett.
Interestingly, of the 26 known Dixiecrats (5 governors and 21 senators) only three ever became republicans: Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Mills E. Godwind, Jr.
The segregationists in the Senate, on the other hand, would return to their party and fight against the Civil Rights acts of 1957, 1960 and 1964. Republican President Dwight Eisenhower proffered the first two Acts."
Urban Legends: The Dixiecrats and The GOP « Freedoms Journal