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[It] was full of the chip-on-the-shoulder swagger and brag of a boy—one, in brief, of which the essence was the boast, voiced or not, on the part of every Southerner, that he would knock hell out of whoever dared to cross him.
b) Anyone from one of the states which seceded in 1861 and briefly formed the , or, more broadly, from some neighboring states as well<! but excluding southerly states like Arizona! ; cf the South.[Resolved] That the Democrats of Alabama would be most deeply hurt, shocked and disillusioned should any attack upon racial segregation be adopted as a plank in the 1948 party platform [...] Such an action by the National leadership of the Democratic party could but force every Southerner into the undesired position of determining which is the greater loyalty, that to the South, or that to the party. <! reported in 2007 by William E. Leuchtenburg, in The White House Looks South, on pages 177–178: In Alabama, the State Democratic Executive Committee resolved "That the Democrats of Alabama would be most deeply hurt, shocked and disillusioned should any attack upon racial segregation be adopted as a plank in the 1948 party platform [...] Such an action by the National leadership of the Democratic party could but force every Southerner into the undesired position of determining which is the greater loyalty, that to the South, or that to the party." Leuchtenburg cites the following: "J. Barton Starr, Birmingham and the "Dixiecrat" Convention of 1948, Alabama Historical Quarterly 32 (1970): 24-25; W. C. Berman, Politics of Civil Rights, 83; R. A. Garson, Democratic Party, 228; Stark, Damned Upcountryman, 214.
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