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. |