Dixiecrats
Segregationist party members
Dixiecrats were members of a breakaway faction of Southern Democrats who opposed civil rights reforms in the mid-twentieth century.
The States' Rights Democratic Party formed in 1948 when Southern delegates bolted from the Democratic National Convention over its civil rights platform, nominating Strom Thurmond for president.
The term blends Dixie (the South) with Democrats, and now labels any Southern politician clinging to segregationist or racially conservative positions: The old Dixiecrats eventually migrated to the Republican Party.
Racial separation laws
- white supremacyDoctrine of racial superiority
- separate but equalRacial segregation's constitutional fiction
- racial segregationSeparation by ethnic background
- desegregationEnding enforced group separation
Brown v. Board · discrimination · inequality · racism · bigotry · prejudice · exclusion · poll taxes
Divided governmental authority system
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- federal overreachExcessive national government authority
- states' rightsProvincial governmental autonomy
- nullificationFormal cancellation of validity
interposition · decentralization · autonomy · self-governance · constitutionality · jurisdiction · localism · anti-federal
- third partyUninvolved outside entity
- splinter groupBreakaway subset of organization
- political realignmentDurable change in voter coalitions
- electoral votesState-allocated presidential selection units
Deep South · South Carolina · national convention · presidential nominee · bolt · defection · platform · ballot
Jim Crow
Racial separation laws
- white supremacyDoctrine of racial superiority
- separate but equalRacial segregation's constitutional fiction
- racial segregationSeparation by ethnic background
desegregation · Brown v. Board · discrimination · inequality · racism · bigotry · prejudice · exclusion · poll taxes · literacy tests
federalism
Divided governmental authority system
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- federal overreachExcessive national government authority
- states' rightsProvincial governmental autonomy
nullification · interposition · decentralization · autonomy · self-governance · constitutionality · jurisdiction · localism · anti-federal · home rule
Harry Truman
- third partyUninvolved outside entity
- splinter groupBreakaway subset of organization
- political realignmentDurable change in voter coalitions
electoral votes · Deep South · South Carolina · national convention · presidential nominee · bolt · defection · platform · ballot · campaign
- US HistoryAmerican Revolution, US history, Civil War, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln
- Political PartiesRepublican Party, Labour Party, Conservative Party, Green Party, Whig Party
- 1950s AmericaEisenhower, McCarthy, McCarthyism, suburbs, Korean War
- Jim CrowJim Crow laws, separate but equal, segregation laws, Plessy v. Ferguson, whites only
- Political Factionsconservatives, Republicans, right wing, far right, hard right
- Southern PoliticsJim Crow, poll tax, poll taxes, one-party rule, grandfather clause
Dixiecratsintegrationists
Advocates for ending separation
Freedom Riders · Hubert Humphrey · Eleanor Roosevelt · civil rights activists · civil rights movement