The Dixiecrat Trip Down Bigotry Lane

When I first started blogging, Nzyme showed up, commented, then sent her henchmen to argue with me. Somehow soundboyz and I started corresponding and developed a point-counterpoint discussion into pretty much everything. While the debate has become heated at times, it has always been interesting to me. I have tried to be respectful to everyone, even when it gets silly. And hopefully Nzyme thinks differently of me now. Somehow, I believe that she does.

That said, soundboyz has the idea that the Dixiecrats somehow merged into the Republican Party and I really had no concrete rebuttal for that, it just didn't "feel" right. I have used this Saturday to become the foremost expert on the Dixiecrats to add to my expertise on Embryonic Stem Cell research.

Here we go....

HERE is where my research started. Trust me, it flew all over the world, including a little dip into the Netherlands. I think that some of these folks are now running the Lottery over there, bastards to the end.

If you notice on the list, Party affiliation is noted for the Senators, however, do notice that Jesse Helms was not an elected Senator at the time of the Dixiecrats. All of the governors were Democrats. And as far as Party affiliation is concerned, they all went to their deaths with those memberships or either they are still alive. Guess what? I count two Republicans. Two. I guess that somewhat discredits THIS MSNBC article. No Liberal bias there. Wonder why folks think that Dixiecrats changed to the Republican party?

On to the rest of the list. There are a few that I can find very little on, and no references to the Dixiecrats other than articles that list these nuts as Dixiecrats. I guess that everyone of them could have become Republicans, but I think that would be out of character, since only two of the Senators jumped to the Republicans, but I guess they could have been.

Those that have very little reference to them include: Mrs. Anna B. Korn, Mrs. Ruth Lackey, O. L. Penny, Ross Lillard, Barney Wolverton were all Dixiecrat Party officials. Clifton Ratlift, Dr. Frazier, Francis Haskell, Clark Hurd, and M. F. Ray had no other references. William E. Jenner (States Rights Candidate for VP in 1956, no other references), T. Coleman Andrews became an independent, J.K. Wells (D) State Official in Arkansas, Governor White (The only governor that I could find was North Dakota’s, but I am not sure that it’s the right one.)

And the rest:
Walter Sillers JR, Mississippi Speaker of the House (D) Died 1966, Harvey T. Ross, Mississippi State Legislature (D) Still alive, Thomas P. Brady, Associate Justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court (D) No reference to his death, Gessner T. McCorvey, Alabama state Democratic Executive Committee Chairman (D), Orval Faubus candidate for president (D) Died 1994, Leander Perez, Louisiana political "leader" (D) Died 1969, Horace C. Wilkinson, Birmingham attorney defender of the Klan and political "leader" (D) No death reference, John Kasper (D) No death reference, Hugh Roy Cullen, Texas Oil Millionare, power broker, and future Republican, John Steel Baston (D), Thomas Jefferson Tubb (D) No reference found to his death, so I assume he is alive.

Last One: John Oliver Emmerich deserves a little in depth information. This ARTICLE gives a little more insight into someone that rethought their ideas on race relations. I couldn't find a reference to Emmerich's political affiliation in later life, but judging by the majority of the rest of the list and their movement in the political spectrum, I would guess that he jumped to the Republicans. That and the fact that he fought for admission of Blacks into Ole Miss.

So that gives us a total of three confirmed Republicans, thirty-four confirmed Democrats, twelve unconfirmed, and one independent. Sounds to me like the overwhelming majority remained Democrats, odd. Another funny thing that I found was that only thirty-four people walked out and we already have fifty listed.

I hope this in-depth treatise clears up a little of the misinformation about who the racists are in politics today.

UPDATE: soundboyz has posted his own article on this TOPIC which details the history of the Dixiecrat Party and Trent Lott's stupidity.

UPDATE 2: This post was submitted to the Carnival of the Vanities and the Carnival is up! Go there, RIGHT NOW!
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