Texas Regulars as Forerunners of Dixiecrats and Southern Suburban GOP Shift

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Yes, the Regulars are perhaps the first example of a pattern that would continue in the following Democrats: Southern Democrats bolting the party in reaction to an interventionist economic policy and federal efforts to reduce/end segregation. In the case of the Texas Regulars, they were reacting to both the New Deal and the Supreme Court decision in Smith v. Allwright, which ended the de jure practice of all-white primaries.