It was Inauguration Day, and in the judgment of one later historian, "the atmosphere in the nation's capital bore ominous signs for Negroes." Washington rang with happy Rebel Yells, while bands all ...

Lacking the Dixiecrats, Democrats just couldn't get elected. They discovered with Clinton that if they shifted to the right, they could pick up disaffected conservative voters and not lose their ...

Why should anyone have been surprised that the senator who led the Republican Party of 2002 paid homage to the States Rights Party of 1948? Those Dixiecrats fatally extolled by Trent Lott at th By ...

With respect to Williamson’s claims, the relevant data point about 1964 isn’t Republican performance in “the South” or even among “southern whites,” but Goldwater’s boffo perfomance among ...

The Dixiecrats' futile run for the presidency in 1948 was a political footnote -- but it signaled big changes to come. The short-lived party boosted an ambitious politician named Strom Thurmond, ...

Wil Haygood, a former Post reporter, is a visiting professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and the author, most recently, of “Tigerland.” Several days later, Joe Biden is still contending with ...

The Republican contest for the U.S. Senate has lacked fireworks, congressional races are still in the process of forming up, and judicial races continue to fly under the voters’ radar. But one rather ...