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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.

{{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, }}

The Dixiecrat leaders would destroy these measures. They join hands with the Republicans and denounce the measures as socialism. The Dixiecrats and the Republicans seek to tear down that which the Democratic Party has built for us. Dixiecrats and Republicans are birds of a feather.|||J. Lister Hill, April 12, 1950}}

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>

However, Dixiecrat supporters were criticized for their "states' rights" hypocrisy because of their history of supporting liberal federal programs. In Mississippi, a student of Millsaps College from the city 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], p. 145. ''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.}}

{{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.|||George Maddox, 1948}}

==Party members==

==Party members==