The party caucus is much stronger and the Dixiecrats have subsided. |
Fortunately, the old power base of the Dixiecrats in Congress has been transformed into the country's most solid bedrock of Republican power. |
A less fantasy-based analysis might have focused more on the memory of Dixiecrats filibustering civil rights legislation. |
It could be argued that, because there were quite a few Dixiecrats in Truman's congressional majority, he would have had difficulty getting a legislative program passed. |
Actually, the SRDs, or Dixiecrats, did not refer to or present themselves as a minor party separate from the two major parties. |
The despair over the Democratic Party's embrace of the civil rights agenda created the Dixiecrats in the late 1940s and fueled former Alabama Gov. |