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CLEP US History II

Category - Political Parties

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Who were the Dixiecrats?
  1. African-American and white Southern supporters of Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt
  2. Southern Democrats of the Clinton-Gore era (Clinton and Gore were both from the South.)
  3. Southern Republicans who left the party in 1884 to vote for Democrat Grover Cleveland
  4. White Southerners who supported the Union during the Civil War and Radical Republican Reconstruction policies
  5. a faction of white Southern Democrats who stormed out of the party in 1948 over their desire to protect segregation
Explanation
Answer: E - The Dixiecrats were white Southern Democrats who left the party in 1948 because they wanted to protect segregation. They formed their own party-officially named the States’ Rights Democratic Party but popularly known as the Dixiecrats-and ran their own presidential candidate, Strom Thurmond, against incumbent Harry S. Truman and Republican Thomas Dewey. They didn’t bother running candidates on the state and local levels. After they lost in the 1948 election, the party disbanded, with most of its members returning to the Democratic Party.
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