Dixiecrat
Segregationist party member
Dixiecrat refers to a member of the States' Rights Democratic Party, a short-lived political party formed by Southern Democrats in 1948 who opposed the national party's civil rights platform.
The term blends Dixie (the South) with Democrat.
Dixiecrats supported racial segregation and states' rights against federal intervention.
The word now evokes mid-century Southern resistance to integration: My grandfather was an old Dixiecrat who never forgave Truman.
Alabama segregationist politician
- demagogueManipulative populist leader
- segregationistAdvocate for racial division
Racial separation laws
- white supremacyDoctrine of racial superiority
- racial segregationSeparation by ethnic background
- separate but equalRacial segregation's constitutional fiction
- color lineSegregation by race
discrimination · Ku Klux Klan · prejudice · bigotry · poll tax · literacy test · disenfranchisement · interposition
- third partyUninvolved outside entity
- electoral votesState-allocated presidential selection units
- conventionAgreed standard of behavior
- BirminghamMajor city, two continents
Deep South · bolt · walkout
Divided governmental authority system
- nullificationFormal cancellation of validity
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- anti-federalOpposing centralized national governance
- state sovereigntySupreme political authority within borders
decentralization · interposition · autonomy · jurisdictional · self-governance
George Wallace
Alabama segregationist politician
- demagogueManipulative populist leader
- segregationistAdvocate for racial division
Jim Crow
Racial separation laws
- white supremacyDoctrine of racial superiority
- racial segregationSeparation by ethnic background
- separate but equalRacial segregation's constitutional fiction
color line · discrimination · Ku Klux Klan · prejudice · bigotry · poll tax · literacy test · disenfranchisement · interposition · racist
Harry Truman
- third partyUninvolved outside entity
- electoral votesState-allocated presidential selection units
- conventionAgreed standard of behavior
Birmingham · Deep South · bolt · walkout
federalism
Divided governmental authority system
- nullificationFormal cancellation of validity
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- anti-federalOpposing centralized national governance
state sovereignty · decentralization · interposition · autonomy · jurisdictional · self-governance
- political buzzwordswoke, wokeness, virtue signaling, virtue signal, dog whistle
democracy, undemocratic, Democrat, Democratic, democratize, democratized, democratizing, democratization, nondemocratic