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The '''States' Rights Democratic Party''', also known as the '''States' Rights Party''' or '''SRP''', was a United States political party formed by a splinter faction of Southern Democrats in 1948 which opposed President [[Harry S. Truman]] and the national Democratic Party. Hardline segregationists in the South with a firm progressive tradition rooted in Jeffersonianism and Jacksonianism, disenchanted with the increasing alliance between New Deal liberalism and civil rights, stormed out of the 1948 Democratic National Convention when it enacted a strong civil rights plank at the urging of [[Minnesota]] mayor and future [[vice president]] [[Hubert Humphrey]]. Members of the States' Rights Democratic Party were known as "'''[[Dixiecrats]]'''."

The '''States' Rights Democratic Party''', also known as the '''States' Rights Party''' or '''SRP''', was a United States political party formed by a splinter faction of Southern Democrats in 1948 which opposed President [[Harry S. Truman]] and the national Democratic Party. Hardline segregationists in the South with a firm progressive tradition rooted in Jeffersonianism and Jacksonianism, disenchanted with the increasing alliance between New Deal liberalism and civil rights, stormed out of the 1948 Democratic National Convention when it enacted a strong civil rights plank at the urging of [[Minnesota]] mayor and future [[vice president]] [[Hubert Humphrey]]. Members of the States' Rights Democratic Party were known as "'''[[Dixiecrats]]'''."

Contemporary historians and scholars designate the Dixiecrat party as "right-wing" and an outgrowth of anti–New Deal politics despite the vast ranks among the movement which vociferously aligned with [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] in the 1930s. (only some factions affiliated with the old Southern Bourbon element) This is attributable to the inability for academic revisionists to distinguish between the old-school progressivism (once prominent in the South for decades) which predates the New Deal, with the modern liberalism that became developed in the 1940s.

Contemporary historians and scholars designate the Dixiecrat party as "right-wing" and an outgrowth of anti–New Deal politics despite the vast ranks among the movement which vociferously aligned with [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] in the 1930s. (only some factions affiliated with the old Southern Bourbon element) This is attributable to the inability for academic revisionists to distinguish between the old-school progressivism (once prominent in the South for decades) which predates the New Deal with the modern liberalism that became developed in the 1940s.

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