Furious with the national Democratic Party's endorsement of civil rights goals in its 1948 platform,southern Democrats set up a new party called the

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The formation of the States' Rights Democratic Party, also known as the Dixiecrats, was a direct response to the Democratic Party's endorsement of civil rights goals in its 1948 platform. The Dixiecrats were a group of southern Democrats who opposed desegregation and the federal government's intervention into state's rights issues. They nominated South Carolina Governor Strom Thurmond as their presidential candidate and campaigned on a platform of maintaining segregation and white supremacy. The other answer choices (B, C, and D) are not historically accurate or relevant to this event.

Furious with the National Democratic Party's Endorsement of Civil Rights