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I don't even have enough time at the very moment to point out every single mistake Kevin M. Kruse made in misidentifying who he thought were Dixiecrats. 'Nuff said!
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. In the 1952 presidential election, losing Democrat nominee [[Adlai Stevenson]], an Illinois liberal, easily carried the Southern congressional districts which supported the Thurmond/Wright ticket in 1948.<ref>Shafer, Byron E.; Johnston, Richard. ''[https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvjnrssg?turn_away=true The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South]''. Retrieved September 28, 2021.</ref> By contrast, the districts which voted for Truman were more favorable towards Eisenhower.
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. In the 1952 presidential election, losing Democrat nominee [[Adlai Stevenson]], an Illinois liberal, easily carried the Southern congressional districts which supported the Thurmond/Wright ticket in 1948.<ref>Shafer, Byron E.; Johnston, Richard. ''[https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvjnrssg?turn_away=true The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South]''. Retrieved September 28, 2021.</ref> By contrast, the districts which voted for Truman were more favorable towards Eisenhower.
==Misapplication of the phrase==
Both conservatives and leftists, when using the term "Dixiecrat" as an insult to hurl political swipes at one another, are prone to misusing the designation in assigning ''all'' past Southern Democrats with the label, even though only members and supporters of the States' Rights Democratic Party of 1948 were actual Dixiecrats. For instance, both right-wing pundit [[Dinesh D'Souza]] and left-wing revisionist "historian" Kevin M. Kruse have embarrassingly, in their inaccuracy, applied the phrase "Dixiecrat" generically to Southern Democrats.
In a Twitter debate, D'Souza challenged Kruse to name "200 or so racist Dixiecrats who switched parties and became Republicans." [https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1013981447609253889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Kruse incorrectly and/or without evidence designated the following as Dixiecrats] despite his prestigious status as a Princeton professor:
* [[John Tower]], the first elected Republican U.S. senator from [[Texas]] since Reconstruction—although Tower was previously affiliated with the Democratic Party, he was only a teenager at the time of the SRP (States' Rights Party/Dixiecrat) revolt in 1948 and there is no evidence he supported it
* [[William C. Cramer]], the father of the modern Florida Republican Party—Cramer's switch from Democrat to Republican in 1949 was at the urging of his law partner [[Herman Goldner]], a supporter of civil rights, and there is no evidence that he ever affiliated with the Dixiecrats, which would have been unlikely given his lack of racial animosity (though he later campaigned against busing in appeals to white swing votes) and openly courting Cuban support in building a statewide GOP coalition<ref>Francis-Fallon, Benjamin (September 24, 2019). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Rise_of_the_Latino_Vote/fVWsDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=william+c.+cramer+cuban+americans&pg=PA156&printsec=frontcover The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History], p. 156. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 15, 2023.</ref>
* [[Edward Gurney]], a Republican U.S. senator from Florida—although Gurney, a Maine transplant, appealed to the anti–civil rights sentiment within the state, there is no evidence that he joined the SRP revolt
* Iris F. Blitch, a Georgia congresswoman who supported both feminism and segregation—there is no indicated evidence that she joined the SRP
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