Clerk Defies Supreme Court, Refuses Gay Marriage Licenses

[Thumpalumpacus]

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From the beginning and end of the article:

The Dixiecrats were members of the States' Rights Democratic Party, which splintered from the Democratic Party in 1948. The faction consisted of malcontented southern delegates to the Democratic Party who protested the insertion of a civil rights plank in the party platform...

...Although the Dixiecrats immediately dissolved after the 1948 election, their impact lasted much longer. Many white voters who initially cast Dixiecrat ballots gravitated back toward the Democratic Party only grudgingly, and they remained nominal Democrats at best. Ultimately, the Dixiecrat movement paved the way for the rise of the modern Republican Party in the South. Many former Dixiecrat supporters eventually became Republicans, as was highlighted by Strom Thurmond's conversion in the 1960s.

http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/artic...dixiecrats

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Regardless of the article there are still people who call themselves democrats or Dixiecrats (mostly rich old people)that I would consider republicans. Also red states tend to have crappy democrats in general. Yea yea the no true democrat fallacy lol. I'm just saying...most politicians in red states suck regardless of political party.

When you consider what TRS wrote here:

[...]since we have the two-party system here in the USA, but in places like southeast Missouri where I live, there are literally so few Democrats that registering to vote as one (in local elections, anyway) is just a way to get two names on the ballot [...]

-- I think you two are in agreement.