Dixiecrat - Wikipedia
The States' Rights Democratic Party (usually called the Dixiecrats) was a short-lived segregationist political party in the United States. It originated in 1948 as a breakaway faction of the Democratic Party determined to protect states' rights to legislate racial segregation from what its members regarded as an oppressive federal government.
The Party opposed racial integration and wanted to retain Jim Crow laws and white supremacy in the face of possible federal intervention.
The party did not run local or state candidates, and after the 1948 election its leaders generally returned to the Democratic Party
Dixiecrats who remained Democrats after 1964:
Orval Fabus
Benjamin Travis Laney
John Stennis
James Eastland
Allen Ellender
Russell Long
John Sparkman
John McClellan
Richard Russell
Herman Talmadge
George Wallace
Lester Maddox
John Rarick
Robert Byrd
Al Gore, Sr.
Bull Connor
Dixiecrats who became Republicans after 1964:
Strom Thurmond
Miles Godwin
So much for that trope.
The States' Rights Democratic Party (usually called the Dixiecrats) was a short-lived segregationist political party in the United States. It originated in 1948 as a breakaway faction of the Democratic Party determined to protect states' rights to legislate racial segregation from what its members regarded as an oppressive federal government.
The Party opposed racial integration and wanted to retain Jim Crow laws and white supremacy in the face of possible federal intervention.
The party did not run local or state candidates, and after the 1948 election its leaders generally returned to the Democratic Party
Dixiecrats who remained Democrats after 1964:
Orval Fabus
Benjamin Travis Laney
John Stennis
James Eastland
Allen Ellender
Russell Long
John Sparkman
John McClellan
Richard Russell
Herman Talmadge
George Wallace
Lester Maddox
John Rarick
Robert Byrd
Al Gore, Sr.
Bull Connor
Dixiecrats who became Republicans after 1964:
Strom Thurmond
Miles Godwin
So much for that trope.