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large numbers of Negro voters realized that they could ac-
complish more by working and voting for the Democratic
party, because it had a much greater possibility of carrying
out its promises. Therefore, despite Wallace's concentrated
appeal for Negro votes, blacks supported Truman as strongly
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as they had backed Franklin Roosevelt.
The second unique aspect of the 19^8 election was, of
course, the desertion of the national Democratic party by
the Southern Democrats, dubbed "Dixiecrats.M Incensed by
the inclusion of a civil rights plank in the national party
platform, the Dixiecrats held their own convention; at their
States Rights Conference in Birmingham, they selected Gover-
nor J. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina to run for the presi-
dency. Despite their high hopes and their insistence that
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they were not a third party but the true Democratic party,
Thurmond's showing in the election was less than overwhelm-
ing. He carried only four Southern states (Alabama, Louisi-
ana, Mississippi, and South Carolina) and it is probable
that the only reason he carried those is that he ran in
those states as the official candidate of the Democratic
party.^
^Moon, op. cit., p. 205.
Walton, op. cit., p. 77*
5Frank J. Sorauf, Party Politics in America (Boston,
1968) p. 1*5.
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Smith, Dale Cheryl. The Impact of the Negro Vote on Alabama Elections Since the Voting Rights Act of 1965, thesis, May 1972; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc131520/m1/28/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .