Conservative Democrats

[Bo]

When will Conservative Democrats begin to make a comeback? By Conservative, I mean having the same political positions as many Southern Democrats had between 1975 and 1995.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Hopefully never.

[Lincoln Republican]

More likely moderate Democrats than conservative Democrats will make more of a comeback.

Moderate Democrats are still elected in parts of the south, in particular Arkansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, Florida.

[Robespierre's Jaw]

Hopefully never.

^^ This.

Also, I think you are mistaken. After all, the Democratic Party has undergone a conservative revival of Clintonesque proportions and the Obama presidency has only strengthened that.

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Comeback from what? A majority of Senate Democrats voted for the Iraq war, DOMA, repealing Glass–Steagall Act, and the list goes on.

[Deldem]

There won't be something like Dixiecrats for a long time.

You have to understand how they came about in the first place. They simply hated the GOP in the South, and this contributed to the Dem's growth there. Also, since many in the South were living in poverty at the time, it was only natural to support the party of the people. While the national party shifted into modern American liberalism to help the common man, the Dixiecrats continued their philosophy they'd had since Reconstruction- spiting the GOP, while voting like the Democrats of antiquity, rather than that of the national party.

It would take a similarly large issue to allow conservative Southern Democrats to return.

[hcallega]

I would say never in the sense of the Dixiecrats. But there was even division there between populists (Long, Folsom, Gore) and reactionaries (Russell, Easltand, Stevenson). There will never be another reactionary movement in the Democractic party, at least in the next generation or two. In terms of populists, I think we may see some in the near future, but moreso out of the west.