The States ' Rights Democratic Party dissolved after the 1948 election , as Truman , the Democratic National Committee , and the New Deal Southern Democrats acted to ensure that the Dixiecrat movement would not return in the 1952 presidential election . Some Southern diehards , such as Leander Perez of Louisiana , attempted to keep it in existence in their districts . Former Dixiecrats received some backlash at the 1952 Democratic National Convention , but all Southern delegations were seated after agreeing to a party loyalty pledge . Moderate Alabama Senator John Sparkman was selected as the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 1952 , helping to boost party loyalty in the South . Regardless of the power struggle within the Democratic Party concerning segregation policy , the South remained a strongly Democratic voting bloc for local , state , and federal Congressional elections , but increasingly not in presidential elections
1952 Democratic National Convention
1952 Democratic National Convention
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