Dixiecrat
The
States' Rights Democratic Party, usually known as the
Dixiecrat Party, was a short-lived splinter group that broke from the
Democratic Party in
1948, when President
Harry Truman announced that his platform would advocate the passage of
civil rights laws. The Dixecrats were a group of Southern Democrats who opposed integration and wanted to retain
Jim Crow laws and
racial segregation.
Strom Thurmond ran for President on the Dixiecrat ticket in the 1948 election, and carried Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina, receiving 1,169,021 popular votes and 39 electorial votes.
See also: List of political parties in the United States