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States' Rights Democratic Party (view source)
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Contrary to Hill's claim of the Dixiecrat movement inherently opposing New Dealism,<ref>Barnard, William D. (1974). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Dixiecrats_and_Democrats/fIxSBAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=dixiecrat+tva&pg=PA181&printsec=frontcover Dixiecrats and Democrats: Alabama Politics], p. 140. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 15, 2023.</ref> seized upon by some contemporary left-wing academics to brand the States' Rights Democratic Party as "conservative," scant, if any evidence substantiates the notion of the whole movement being unified under economic conservatism. 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 with a sharp rebuke against States' Rights backers:<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>
Contrary to Hill's claim of the Dixiecrat movement inherently opposing New Dealism,<ref>Barnard, William D. (1974). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Dixiecrats_and_Democrats/fIxSBAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=dixiecrat+tva&pg=PA181&printsec=frontcover Dixiecrats and Democrats: Alabama Politics], p. 140. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 15, 2023.</ref> seized upon by some contemporary left-wing academics to brand the States' Rights Democratic Party as "conservative," scant, if any evidence substantiates the notion of the whole movement being unified under economic conservatism. 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 with a sharp rebuke against States' Rights backers:<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.'''|||George Maddox to Dixiecrat supporters, 1948}}
{{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 to Dixiecrat supporters, 1948}}
==Remaining fragments—Democrat or Republican?==
In "Myth America," popular left-wing revisionist historian and Twitter personality Kevin M. Kruse, along with Julian E. Zelizer, quotes author Kari Frederickson, "there was a strong correlation between counties that supported the Dixiecrats and those that endorsed Eisenhower."<ref>Kruse, Kevin M.; Zelizer, Julian E. (January 3, 2023). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Myth_America/bqZdEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=dixiecrats+republicans+kevin+kruse&pg=PT336&printsec=frontcover Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past]. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 15, 2023.</ref> Kruse cites several Dixiecrat leaders who went on to endorse Eisenhower, such as [[Leander Perez]] of Louisiana, several South Carolina Democrats, and several others as alleged proof of a Dixiecrat–Republican correlation.
However, this did not hold true for all states—Alabama, for instance, saw a correlation between the Dixiecrats in 1948 and the national Democrats in 1952. In addition, an analysis by Byron E. Shafer and Richard Johnston in "The End of Southern Exceptionalism," far more reliable than the narratives of standard academics, concludes that ''25 out of 29 Southern congressional districts which supported the Thurmond/Wright Dixiecrat ticket would subsequently back Adlai Stevenson rather than Eisenhower in 1952.''<ref>Shafer, Byron E.; Johnston, Richard (2006). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_End_of_Southern_Exceptionalism/tiNYRu5rvVgC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=dixiecrats+adlai+stevenson+end+of+southern+republicanism&pg=PA167&printsec=frontcover The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South], p. 167. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 15, 2023.</ref>
==Party members/supporters==
==Party members/supporters==