The GA Democratic machine stayed with Truman.
But why? The Democratic party machines did not stay with Truman in other Deep Southern states, evidently. So why did Georgia stay loyal?
It's already been said: Richard Russell supported Truman.
But it does not address the important matter: why did he support Truman?
I was reading a book that google offered a preview online for the other day.
Richard Russell was confident that Truman would lose in 1948 because of the split between States' Rights and Progressive Parties. Such an election result would have allowed the South to accept their accolades following the 1948 Democratic National Convention: That the Democrats needed the South.
If I may wholesale quote...
Thanks, that is quite illuminating. Russell was quite the strategic thinker, it seems.
Yeah, except that Truman actually won and Dixiecrats got permanently wiped out of politics a couple of years later.
