Participants from South Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi made up the majority of those in attendance. Governor J. Their goal was to win the electoral college votes of the southern states. This would prevent either Republican Party nominee Thomas Dewey or Harry Truman from winning the electoral votes necessary for election, thus throwing the contest into the House of Representatives, where the South would hold eleven of the forty-eight votes.
In the House election it was believed that southern Democrats would be able to deadlock the election until either party had agreed to drop its own civil rights plank. They opposed federal anti-lynching and anti-poll-tax legislation and a permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission which Dixiecrats claimed would impose racial hiring quotas on employers , and were pledged to uphold segregation and white supremacy. The Dixiecrats argued that such legislation infringed on the rights of the states as set forth in the Constitution.
That was not enough for the liberals. Truman's own civil rights initiatives had made the civil rights debate unavoidable. The planks were adopted and 35 southern Democrats walked out in protest. New York moderate Nelson Rockefeller 's defeat in the presidential primary election marked the beginning of the end of moderates and liberals in the Republican Party. Clearer political and ideological lines began to be drawn between the Democrat and Republican parties as moderates and liberals converted from Republican to Democrat.
Conservatives in the Democratic Party began to move to the increasingly conservative Republican Party. Wright, as their vice-presidential nominee. The party platform represented the openly racist views of most white southerners of the time. So the Dixiecrats were born. As Black people got the right to vote and became politically involved, they flocked to the Democratic party.
She makes it clear that she saw little difference in the political stances of her father in the s and those of Donald Trump in Scroll to continue reading. The establishment and other politicians viewed him as a demagogue. Nobody will buy what he is selling, they declared. Just take a look at him. That was a mistake. And forty-four years later, disaffected voters responded similarly to Trump. They rebelled against the same intellectualism and paternalism that Daddy railed against. It was the politics of rage and fear.
It was resentment for no particular reason. Republican Thomas Dewey only 19 percent. So the case can certainly be made that the DNA of Alabama voters has not changed much since at least and the Republican party has morphed into the old Dixiecrat party.
Given that the majority of Alabamians are descendants of Scots-Irish, this is understandable. In general, Scots-Irish who came to this country were fierce, violent and independent people.
They set their own rules and dared anyone to try and change them. Their pride overruled common sense and permitted them to cast votes that were hurtful to their own well-being. Look at Strom Thurmond in Or better yet, look at Barry Goldwater in Goldwater was a U.
Just the kind of candidate that the Scots-Irish loved. Just like Donald Trump could do.
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