
1) Certain Southern pol 2) Certain Southern politico 3) Dissident politician of 1948 4) Strom Thurmond was one 5) Strom thurmond, notably
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member of a right-wing Democratic splinter group in the 1948 U.S. presidential election organized by Southerners who objected to the civil rights ... [2 related articles]
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a member of a faction of southern Democrats stressing states' rights and opposed to the civil-rights programs of the Democratic party, esp. a southern Democrat who bolted the party in 1948 and voted for the candidates of the States' Rights Democratic party.
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