CrotchetyGeezer
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Save your BS twisted logic and try to sell it to some impressionable 10-year-old who will actually buy it.
It isn't "twisted logic" to point out that the faction of the Democratic Party you're talking about left the party--physically walked out of the convention in 1948 over the party's civil rights platform and ran their own Presidential candidate against the Democrats. When the civil rights agenda of the Humphreys of the party gained steam, many of them left the party for good. Strom Thurmod died a Republican.
Sure it's twisted logic. And, that you cite ONE individual from that period which ended up turning Republican? LOL! Weak. And, not only that, lets not forget he was a States' Rights DEMOCRAT before he was a Republican. And, lets not mention the fact that, ultimately, most of those who broke away from the Democratic party to form the States' Rights Democratic Party rejoined the Democrat party after the 1948 election.
Additionally, Wikipedia articles on this matter are quite contradictory. While one Wikipedia entry claims Strom Thurmond was in the States' Rights Democratic Party from 1948 to 1964 in an article about Strom Thurmond, another Wikipedia entry about Dixiecrats also says "The States' Rights Democratic Party dissolved after the 1948 election". How could Strom Thurmond have still supposedly been in the States' Rights Democratic Party until 1964 if the States' Rights Democratic Party supposedly dissolved in 1948? And, additionally, this Wikipedia entry, -- "after the 1948 election its [the States' Rights Democratic Party's] leaders generally returned to the Democratic Party" -- unless you can prove it inaccurate, disqualifies your claim that, "When the civil rights agenda of the Humphreys(sic) of the party gained steam, many of them left the party for good."