Dixiecrat

Dixiecrat

English

Etymology

Blend of Dixie +‎ Democrat

Noun

Dixiecrat (plural Dixiecrats)

1. (US politics, dated) A member of the Democratic Party of the United States of America from the southern States, especially one of the former territories of the Confederate States of America, who hold socially conservative viewpoints, and supports racial segregation and white power.
   • 1964 April 3, Malcolm X, "The Ballot or the Bullet":

     A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.

2. (US politics, historical) A member of the short-lived States' Rights Democratic Party of the United States of America.
   • 2014, James W. Ely Jr.; Bradley G. Bond, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, UNC Press Books, →ISBN, page 190:

     Throughout the controversy, most prominent southern leaders stayed within the Democratic Party. After the election, the Dixiecrat movement evaporated. The South's vocal dissent in 1948, however, forecast the sectional unrest of the following decades, weakened the region's loyalty to the Democratic Party, and prepared the way for future political realignment.

See also

• War Democrat
• Blue-dog Democrat
• DINO