The Republican Party is Becoming the new Dixiecrat Party

The Dixiecrat Party became an "offshoot of the Democrats" in 1948 because that was the year the national Democratic Party, under Harry Truman, stopped tolerating segregation and began pushing Civil Rights legislation. The Southern segregationists bolted from the Democratic Party, formed their own splinter Dixiecrat Party, and nominated Strom Thurmond to run as their presidential candidate. When the Dixiecrat Party folded, after its sorry showing in the 1948 election, these segregationist Ex-Democrats joined the Republican Party -- where they have remained ever since. Today, we see the opposite migration happening under our own eyes. The Republican Party is now turning itself into the Dixiecrat Party -- and will probably end up with the same amount of national following as the Dixiecrats had in 1948.