States' Rights Democratic Party

American  

noun

1. a political party formed by dissident southern Democrats who opposed the candidacy of Harry Truman in 1948 and campaigned on a platform of states' rights.

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Example Sentences

But as more Black people gravitated to the Democrats, White Southerners moved with more than deliberate speed out of the Democratic Party, briefly flirting with the States’ Rights Democratic Party, before landing in the Republican Party, where they are now the GOP’s heart and soul for, in my view, all the wrong reasons: race and civil rights.

From Washington Post

In July of that year, Thurmond left the Democratic Party at its national convention in July and established the States Rights Democratic Party, known as the Dixiecrats.

From Washington Times

Before the election, some Democrats opposed to Truman’s support of civil rights and racial integration split off and formed the States’ Rights Democratic Party, also known as the Dixiecrats.

From Los Angeles Times

South Carolina’s governor, Strom Thurmond, won the nomination of the Dixiecrats, the States’ Rights Democratic Party, in 1948.

From New York Times

The 1948 platform, which included a call to abolish poll taxes and desegregate the military, was enough for a bloc of Southern states to defect and form the States’ Rights Democratic Party—the “Dixiecrats”—whose eventual nominee, the South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, saw the platform as a call for “a police state in this country.”

From The New Yorker