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'''Dixiecrat''' was the informal term for Southern [[Democratic Party|Democrats]] who in 1948 refused to support President [[Harry S. Truman]] for election to a full term because he was in their eyes too [[liberal]] on racial issues. The official name was the '''States Rights Party.''' Dixiecrats formed a third party that nominated South Carolina [[Governor]] and later long-term [[United States Senator]] [[Strom Thurmond]], who carried four states in the Deep South where he was the official nominee of the Democratic Party. Thurmond received the thirty-nine electoral votes of [[Louisiana]], [[Mississippi]], [[Alabama]], and his own South Carolina. His popular vote was 1.2 million (2.4 percent) of the national total.  

'''Dixiecrat''' was the informal term for Southern [[Democratic Party|Democrats]] who in 1948 refused to support President [[Harry S. Truman]] for election to a full term because he was in their eyes too pro-civil rights. The official name was the '''States Rights Party'''. Dixiecrats formed a third party that nominated South Carolina [[Governor]] and later long-term [[United States Senator]] [[Strom Thurmond]] in addition to Mississippi governor Fielding L. Wright. The ticket carried four states in the Deep South where Thurmond was the official nominee of the Democratic Party. He received the thirty-nine electoral votes of [[Louisiana]], [[Mississippi]], [[Alabama]], and his own South Carolina. His popular vote was 1.2 million (2.4 percent) of the national total.  

The Dixiecrats did not nominate any other candidates at any level, and dissolved after Truman won the election over the [[Moderate Republican [[Thomas E. Dewey]] of [[New York]]. The Dixiecrats returned to the Democrats but came into increasingly more conflict with the liberal sections of the national party, and many turned to the [[Republican Party]] after the presidency of [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] was succeeded by [[Richard Nixon]].

The Dixiecrats did not nominate any other candidates at any level, and dissolved after Truman won the election over the [[Moderate Republican [[Thomas E. Dewey]] of [[New York]]. The Dixiecrats returned to the Democrats but came into increasingly more conflict with the pro-civil rights sections of the national party.

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