Alongside who did Stennis support the Dixiecrat ticket in 1948?
Barry Goldwater
Dwight D. Eisenhower
James Eastland
Theodore Bilbo
Answer
Stennis and James Eastland supported the Dixiecrat ticket in 1948. The Dixiecrat ticket was a political party formed by southern Democrats who opposed the civil rights movement and the Democratic Party's support for it. The Dixiecrats ran Strom Thurmond for president and Fielding L. Wright for vice president. They won four states in the 1948 presidential election: South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
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