Definition of Dixiecrat in English:
Dixiecrat
noun ˈdɪksɪkratˈdiksēˌkrat
US informal Any of the Southern Democrats who seceded from the party in 1948 in opposition to its policy of extending civil rights.
Example sentencesExamples
- In 1948, disgruntled southern Democrats, nicknamed Dixiecrats, launched the States' Rights party.
- A less fantasy-based analysis might have focused more on the memory of Dixiecrats filibustering civil rights legislation.
- Fortunately, the old power base of the Dixiecrats in Congress has been transformed into the country's most solid bedrock of Republican power.
- He was a traditional segregationist, though the one-time Dixiecrat had reconciled with the national Democratic Party by the time he became Armed Services chairman.
- This was a period in which the segregationist Southern Dixiecrats played a leading role in the Democratic Party as well as the Roosevelt administration.