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It was the end of the "party within a party" aspect of the democratic party, where the southern "dixiecrats" would work for social ends that were directly contradictory to what northern democrats were [...]
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The racist democrats that you guys always point to were Southern Democrats, and they were dubbed "dixiecrats" later, when they switched to Republicans after they lost the civil rights battle.
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The fall of the GOP began with the defection of the "dixiecrats".
Think Progress 2009
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They have become the new dixiecrats, truely a relic of the past.
Vitter defends Southern influence in GOP, slams Voinovich 2009
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Uncle Fester Lurks says: jwest says: jwest conveniently leaves out the part of history where the racist dixiecrats left the democratic party after the party fought for civil rights and joined the republican party who greeted the despicable racists with open arms.
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I've benn saying for years that the party got southernized by people who used to be dixiecrats and have entirely missed the conservative mantra of small, limited government and a champion of personal freedoms.
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Oh ... was that too harsh, sorry, 6 out of 10 dixiecrats (now calling themselves ultra-conservative) can't read this anyway.
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That all changed when the dixiecrats who were against civil rights joined the republican party who greeted them with open arms.
Think Progress » Steele on serving as RNC chair: God has ‘placed me here for a reason.’ 2010
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The pubs got the dixiecrats to convert to pub after the 60's voter laws; Nixon used racial resentment to win the south – the R in Republican stands for racist in many parts of US to this day.
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Repugniscum show us again today just how low they are — they, the ones who fought civil rights to the extent that they formed a political party of dixiecrats — now want us to believe they are following his leadership?
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