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States' Rights Democratic Party (view source)
Revision as of 19:19, May 15, 2023
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However, Southern Democrats increasingly broke with FDR and the New Deal for both economic and civil rights–related reasons. As the developing modern liberalism of the New Deal exemplified using Hamiltonian, centralized big-government means to achieve its ends, the Jeffersonian economic tradition of the South which emphasized states' rights increasingly resented Roosevelt's policies. The political effects of World War II carried the greatest impact in shaping left-wing politics towards centralization as opposed to states' rights and Jeffersonianism, whose progressive ideology all but died out subsequently. Wartime price controls failed to benefit rural Southern whites, the traditional constituency of the Progressive Movement in the region.
However, Southern Democrats increasingly broke with FDR and the New Deal for both economic and civil rights–related reasons. As the developing modern liberalism of the New Deal exemplified using Hamiltonian, centralized big-government means to achieve its ends, the Jeffersonian economic tradition of the South which emphasized states' rights increasingly resented Roosevelt's policies. The political effects of World War II carried the greatest impact in shaping left-wing politics towards centralization as opposed to states' rights and Jeffersonianism, whose progressive ideology all but died out subsequently. Wartime price controls failed to benefit rural Southern whites, the traditional constituency of the Progressive Movement in the region.
By the presidency of Harry Truman following Roosevelt's death, civil rights had already began to take priority among New Deal liberalism. The Fair Employment Practice Committee was enacted by FDR in 1941 to prevent segregationist laws from impeding the war effort, and Truman expediently abandoned his racism on the public level in seeking to strengthen civil rights provisions, all but alienating the old progressive wing of the Southern Democrats.
==Platform<ref name=platform>August 14, 1948. [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/platform-the-states-rights-democratic-party Platform of the States Rights Democratic Party]. ''The American Presidency Project''. Retrieved May 15, 2023.</ref>==
==Platform<ref name=platform>August 14, 1948. [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/platform-the-states-rights-democratic-party Platform of the States Rights Democratic Party]. ''The American Presidency Project''. Retrieved May 15, 2023.</ref>==