Who Were the "Dixiecrats

Who were the "Dixiecrats"?

A) Members of the national press corps who covered the story of Strom Thurmond's breakaway from the Democratic Party.
B) Southern Democrats who walked out of the 1948 convention to form the "States' Rights Democratic Party."
C) Southern labor organizers who campaigned against passage of the Taft-Hartley Act.
D) Republicans who favored maintaining segregation in the South in support of the principle of states' rights.
E) Members of the Commission on Civil Rights.