Dixiecrats

The Dixiecrats were a group of Democrats who split off from the Democratic Party in 1948. The party was intially a white supremacist group of Neo-Confederates and southerners who were still salty about the American Civil War. Though when their founder, Storm Thurmond, lost the 1948 election, the party collapsed and they rejoined the other Democrats. Even after rejoining the Democratic Party the Dixiecrats stayed a major force in the party.