United States, 39.76, -98.5Buchanan, Scott E.2004-07-27Encyclopedia article about Dixiecrats, members of the States' Rights Democratic Party which splintered from the Democratic Party in 1948 protesting the insertion of a civil rights plank in the party platform and U.S. president Harry S. Truman's advocacy of that plank. Delegates from Alabama, Mississippi and a few other southern states chose South Carolina governor Strom Thurmond and Mississippi governor Fielding L. Wright as a presidential ticket to oppose the Democrats. In the 1948 election the Dixicrats won in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina where the Thurmond-Wright ticket was the "official" Democratic Party ticket. However they failed to win any state in which Thurmond was a third-party candidate.The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.GSE identifier: SS8H11Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.States' Rights Democratic PartyUnited States--Race relations--History--20th centuryUnited States--Politics and government--1945-1953DixiecratsText