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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 right-wing on economics despite its voter base hardly objecting to beneficial New Deal legislation.]]

[[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 to 1938), 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.

The Dixiecrat leaders would destroy these measures. They join hands with the Republicans and denounce the measures as socialism. The Dixiecrats and the Republicans seek to tear down that which the Democratic Party has built for us. Dixiecrats and Republicans are birds of a feather.|||J. Lister Hill, April 12, 1950}}

The Dixiecrat leaders would destroy these measures. They join hands with the Republicans and denounce the measures as socialism. The Dixiecrats and the Republicans seek to tear down that which the Democratic Party has built for us. Dixiecrats and Republicans are birds of a feather.|||J. Lister Hill, April 12, 1950}}