Southern Democrats
Antebellum region's party
Southern Democrats were members of the Democratic Party in the American South, particularly from the Civil War era through the mid-20th century.
The term often implies the conservative, segregationist wing that dominated Southern politics and opposed civil rights legislation.
Many Southern Democrats shifted to the Republican Party following the Democratic Party's embrace of civil rights in the 1960s.
The Southern Democrats controlled Congress through seniority for decades.
- Bible BeltProtestant-heavy U.S. territory
- Lost CausePro-Confederate historical revisionism
- Reconstruction EraPost-secession national mending period
- Jim Crow lawsPost-Reconstruction racial separation statutes
- poll taxesPer-person voting levies
John C. Calhoun · Great Society · Dixiecrats · George Wallace · Conservatism · cotton economy · Ozarks · Mississippi Delta · Gulf Coast · courthouse square · good ol' boy · states' rights · filibuster · segregation
- Abolitionismabolitionists, abolitionist movement, anti-slavery, antislavery, abolitionism
- Gilded AgeGilded Age, robber baron, robber barons, Carnegie, Rockefeller
Southern Democratsintegrationists
Advocates for ending separation
Radical Republicans · abolitionists · Freedom Riders · NAACP · Hubert Humphrey
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