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The States' Rights Democratic Party, also colloquially referred to as the Dixiecrat Party, was a short-lived segregationist, states' rights, and Southern Democratic political party in the United State
Strom Thurmond, c 1961
Fielding L. Wright, 1948
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 2, 1948. The Democratic ticket of incumbent President Harry S. Truman and Senator Alben Barkley defeated the Republican ticket of New
Dixiecrat
…On non-racial issues, they held heterogeneous beliefs. Despite the Dixiecrats' success in several states, Truman was narrowly re-elected. After the 1948 election, its leaders generally returned to the Democratic Party, at least for a time, although the Dixiecrats weakened Democratic identity among white Southerners…
Harry S Truman, bw half length photo portrait, facing front, 1945
Thomas Dewey
Strom Thurmond 1948
Congressman Vito Marcantonio (left) with former Vice President Henry A. Wallace at New York City's "Lucky Corner" on election eve, November 1, 1948