Dixiecrats and the GOP

January 9, 2003 | This article appeared in the January 27, 2003 edition of The Nation.

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Why should anyone have been surprised that the senator who led the
Republican Party of 2002 paid homage to the States Rights Party of 1948?
Those Dixiecrats fatally extolled by Trent Lott at th

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Diane McWhorter

Diane McWhorter is the author of Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights...

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