President Harry Truman's Fair Deal ensured the support of southern Dixiecrats at the 1948 Democratic convention.

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The Fair Deal pushed for civil rights and other progressive reforms that alienated southern Dixiecrats, many of whom ended up splitting from the Democratic party to form the States' Rights Democratic Party (also known as the Dixiecrats). Truman was able to win the Democratic nomination without their support.

President Harry Truman's Fair Deal Ensured the Support of Southern