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Why Did Southern Democrats Fear Losing Their Position in the Democratic

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Why did southern Democrats fear losing their position in the Democratic Party following its national convention of 1948?


A) The numbers were ever shrinking in proportion to northern Democrats.
B) The strong migration westward had significantly reduced the southern Democratic constituency.
C) President Truman used the convention to bolster the position of his fellow Democrats from the northeastern establishment.
D) Party liberals under the leadership of Hubert Humphrey had added a strong civil rights plank to the party platform.
E) The success of Republicans in the South was eroding the constituency base for southern Democrats.

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