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Dixiecrat definition

☆ Dixie·crat (-krat′)

noun

a member of a party of Southern Democrats opposed to the civil rights platform of the Democratic Party in 1948

Etymology: Dixie + (demo)crat

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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