I was looking at the 1948 election results in Bama

[Lenape85]

How come there were no votes for Harry Truman

http://uselectionatlas.org/USPRESIDENT/state.php?year=1948&fips=1&f=1

[BamaLefty]

1. No Idea

Thurmond Alabama's 11 electoral votes

[SaveElmer]

2. I believe...

He wasn;t on the ballot in Alamabastan...if I remember correctly.

[bobbieinok]

3. that was the year the Dixiecrats walked out of the dem natl conv and

formed the Dixiecrat party. They won several states in the deep south.

They left primarily because Truman had desegregated the military by executive decree. According to many, he thereby destroyed the military because 'Every body knows Negroes can't fight.' An extreme white supremicist party.

These are the people in the south who left the democratic party in the 60s because of the party's support of civil rights for blacks. They felt right at home in the 'new' republican party that gleefully adopted Nixon's 1960 'southern strategy,' ie, appeal to 'racist' southerners and thereby start getting the dominant role in the old 'solid south.' Reagan solidified this policy.


T Lott lost the senate majority leader position because he said something like 'MS voted for Thurmond in 48. The US would be in a much better shape now if more states had done so and he had won.'