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==Background==

==Background==

<center>{{cquote|[[C. Vann Woodward]] has called Progressivism in the South, "progressivism for white men only'. The activities of [[Woodrow Wilson]] and his [[Secretary of War]], Josephus Daniels, both native southerners, support this view. Daniels could defend the "color lines while attacking political corruption and the activities of the trusts. Wilson while calling for progressive banking and [[anti-trust]] legislation was endorsing [[D.W. Griffith]]'s, 'Birth of a Nations film and allowing segregation in the United States armed forces. [[Theodore Roosevelt]] while inviting [[Booker T. Washington]] to the [[White House]] and noting upon his political suggestions, never called for [[Anti-lynching law|antilynohing]] or antidisfranohisement laws.|||"Voices of Protest: W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington," p. 6<ref>Barnes, Harry W. (August 8, 1969). [https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED044344.pdf Voices of Protest: W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington.] ''Institute of Education Sciences''. Retrieved May 15, 2023.</ref>}}</center>

<center>{{cquote|[[C. Vann Woodward]] has called Progressivism in the South, "progressivism for white men only'. The activities of [[Woodrow Wilson]] and his [[Secretary of War]], Josephus Daniels, both native southerners, support this view. Daniels could defend the "color lines while attacking political corruption and the activities of the trusts. Wilson while calling for progressive banking and [[anti-trust]] legislation was endorsing [[D.W. Griffith]]'s, 'Birth of a Nations film and allowing segregation in the United States armed forces. [[Theodore Roosevelt]] while inviting [[Booker T. Washington]] to the [[White House]] and noting upon his political suggestions, never called for [[Anti-lynching law|antilynohing]] or antidisfranohisement laws.|||"Voices of Protest: W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington," p. 6<ref>Barnes, Harry W. (August 8, 1969). [https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED044344.pdf Voices of Protest: W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington.] ''Institute of Education Sciences''. Retrieved May 15, 2023.</ref>}}</center>

During the First and Second New Deal, the majority of Southern Democrats lined up behind President Roosevelt, supporting left-wing economic relief measures at the expense of traditional free-market principles. The New Deal enforced institutional white supremacy to appease the Democrats of the "Solid South" who ardently opposed any federal legislation which would interfere with the region's Jim Crow laws; the [[Federal Housing Administration]] not only enforced segregation, but even refused to insure houses for black families.<ref>Little, Becky (June 1, 2021). [https://www.history.com/news/housing-segregation-new-deal-program How a New Deal Housing Program Enforced Segregation]. ''History Channel''. Retrieved May 15, 2023.</ref>

During the First and Second New Deal, the majority of Southern Democrats lined up behind President Roosevelt, supporting left-wing economic relief measures at the expense of traditional free-market principles. The New Deal enforced institutional white supremacy to appease the Democrats of the "Solid South" who ardently opposed any federal legislation which would interfere with the region's Jim Crow laws; the [[Federal Housing Administration]] not only enforced segregation, but even refused to insure houses for black families.<ref>Little, Becky (June 1, 2021). [https://www.history.com/news/housing-segregation-new-deal-program How a New Deal Housing Program Enforced Segregation]. ''History Channel''. Retrieved May 15, 2023.</ref>

==Economically "right-wing"?==

==Economically "right-wing"?==

[[Lister Hill]], a lifelong [[New Deal]] liberal from [[Alabama]] who served as a U.S. senator from the state since 1938 (and previously a congressman from 1923–38), 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 Democratic Party unity in the South:<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 United States Congress · Volume 96], pp. 3,614–15. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 15, 2023.</ref>

[[Lister Hill]], a lifelong [[New Deal]] liberal from [[Alabama]] who served as a U.S. senator from the state since 1938 (and previously a congressman from 1923–38), 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 Democratic Party unity in the South:<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 United States 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.