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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 aligned 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 aligned 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.
==Background==
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>
==Platform<ref name=platform>August 14, 1948. [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/platform-the-states-rights-democratic-party Platform of the States Rights Democratic Party]. ''The American Presidency Project''. Retrieved May 15, 2023.</ref>==
==Platform<ref name=platform>August 14, 1948. [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/platform-the-states-rights-democratic-party Platform of the States Rights Democratic Party]. ''The American Presidency Project''. Retrieved May 15, 2023.</ref>==