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==Economically "right-wing"?==

==Economically "right-wing"?==

[[File:Lister Hill of AL.jpg|thumb|right|Sen. J. Lister Hill branded Dixiecrats as economic conservatives despite evidence to the contrary.]]

[[File:Lister Hill of AL.jpg|thumb|right|Sen. J. Lister Hill branded Dixiecrats as right-wing on economics despite its voter base hardly objecting to beneficial New Deal legislation.]]

[[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.