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States' Rights Democratic Party (view source)
Revision as of 21:21, May 15, 2023
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# We demand that there be returned to the people to whom of right they belong, those powers needed for the preservation of human rights and the discharge of our responsibility as democrats for human welfare. We oppose a denial of those by political parties, a barter or sale of those rights by a political convention, as well as any invasion or violation of those rights by the Federal Government. We call upon all Democrats and upon all other loyal Americans who are opposed to totalitarianism at home and abroad to unite with us in ignominiously defeating Harry S. Truman, Thomas E. Dewey and every other candidate for public office who would establish a Police Nation in the United States of America.
# We demand that there be returned to the people to whom of right they belong, those powers needed for the preservation of human rights and the discharge of our responsibility as democrats for human welfare. We oppose a denial of those by political parties, a barter or sale of those rights by a political convention, as well as any invasion or violation of those rights by the Federal Government. We call upon all Democrats and upon all other loyal Americans who are opposed to totalitarianism at home and abroad to unite with us in ignominiously defeating Harry S. Truman, Thomas E. Dewey and every other candidate for public office who would establish a Police Nation in the United States of America.
# We, therefore, urge that this Convention endorse the candidacies of J. Strom Thurmond and Fielding H. Wright for the President and Vice-president, respectively, of the United States of America.|||Platform of the States Rights Democratic Party, August 14, 1948}}
# We, therefore, urge that this Convention endorse the candidacies of J. Strom Thurmond and Fielding H. Wright for the President and Vice-president, respectively, of the United States of America.|||Platform of the States Rights Democratic Party, August 14, 1948}}
==Economically "right-wing"?==
[[Lister Hill]], a consistent [[New Deal]] liberal from [[Alabama]] who served as a U.S. senator from the state since 1938 (and previously a congressman since the 1920s), aligned with the Democratic regulars in 1948 and denounced the Dixiecrat movement as a puppet of landlords conspiring to facilitate a Republican Party victory by disrupting Southern Democratic unity:<ref>Appendix to the Congressional Record (April 12, 1950). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Congressional_Record/kybOPBFG3QgC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=dixiecrat+tva&pg=SL1-PA3615&printsec=frontcover Congressional Record
Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress · Volume 96], pp. 3,614–15. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 15, 2023.</ref>
{{cquote|As your Senator, I have worked and labored and fought for these measures with all my heart and soul. As I talk to you at this moment I fight to preserve them, that their benefits and blessings may continue to flow to you, to Alabama, and to all our people.
The Dixiecrat leaders would destroy these measures. They join hands with the Repub- licans and denounce the measures as social- ism. The Dixiecrats and the Republicans seek to tear down that which the Democratic Party has built for us. Dixiecrats and Re- publicans are birds of a feather.|||J. Lister Hill, }}
However, Dixiecrat supporters were criticized for their "states' rights" hypocrisy because of their history of supporting liberal federal programs. In Mississippi, Millsaps College student George Maddox of McComb addressed a convention stating:<ref>Frederickson, Kari (2001). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Dixiecrat_Revolt_and_the_End_of_the/_Y0MCgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=dixiecrat+tva&pg=PA145&printsec=frontcover The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968]. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 15, 2023.</ref>
{{cquote|You have never objected to flood control programs, subsidies for farmers and education, and TVA or any of the other things the government has brought in to your profit.}}
==Party members==
==Party members==