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Dixiecrat

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Dix·ie·crat  (dks-krt)
n.
A member of a dissenting group of Democrats in the South who formed the States' Rights Party in 1948.

[Dixie1 + (Demo)crat.]

Dixie·cratic adj.


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By contrast, Clinton wanted the Democratic Party to renew its "common ground" with those who left the party with Strom Thurmond and the Dixiecrats and those who jumped ship when Ronald Reagan rose to power: white men.
An example is the illustration of a tombstone for the Dixiecrat Party that reads, "This Ain't a Colored Cemetery, Is It?
Trent Lott as majority leader upon his waxing nostalgic for Strom Thurmond's good ol" Dixiecrat segregationist days and Howell Raines as editor of The New York Times following the Jason Blair debacle.
 
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