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Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics
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To: koan who wrote (51357)8/22/2013 8:42:18 AM
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Dixiecrats almost all eventually became Republicans.

Almost none of the elected Dixiecrats did.

You mention only three. Out of those -

Wallace was never a Republican. He was a Democrat, then a member of the American Independent Party, then a Democrat again. He was only involved with the AIP for one election, mostly he was a Democrat.

Helms did become a Republican, but was never a member of the "States' Rights Democratic Party" or the AIP.

Thurmond was the only senior elected member of the States' Rights Democratic Party/Dixiecrat party to become a Republican.

So you have one. Two if you count all Democrats or former Democrats who had supported segregation. But if you count those than you have an awful lot of them who staid in, or returned to the Democratic party. Including Wallace (and others) who left and returned, and the one's that Brumar mentioned (and many others) who staid in the Democratic Party.
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