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Splinter parties: Nonpartisan League (1915) National Party (1917) Communist Party USA (1919) Proletarian Party of America (1920) American Labor Party (1936)
Truman's support of the civil rights movement, combined with the adoption of a civil rights plank in the 1948 Democratic platform proposed by future Vice President Hubert Humphrey, [129] prompted many Southerners to walk out of the Democratic National Convention and form the Dixiecrat Party. [130] This splinter party played a significant role ...
The States' Rights Democratic Party (whose members are often called the Dixiecrats), also colloquially referred to as the Dixiecrat Party, was a short-lived segregationist, States' Rights, and old southern democratic political party in the United States, active primarily in the South.
The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a communist party in the United States. ... a Trotskyist splinter group called the Communist League of Struggle (CLS), ...
Splinter group, a smaller division, cell, or faction that has split off from a larger organization or movement; Splinter, in contract bridge, a splinter bid meaning a suit with one card or no cards; Splinter News, a news and opinion website; One of the word or morpheme fragments making up a blend word; Splinter (political party), a Dutch ...
American electoral politics have been dominated by successive pairs of major political parties since shortly after the founding of the republic of the United States. Since the 1850s, the two largest political parties have been the Democratic Party and the Republican Party—which together have won every United States presidential election since 1852 and controlled the United States Congress ...
Two far-right splinter parties are also seen entering parliament, potentially giving ultranationalists a third of seats in the legislative.
By the 1940s, the Republican and third-party allies had mostly been defeated. In 1948, the Democratic Party stood alone and won both the White House and both Congressional houses with a mandate, surviving the splits that created two splinter parties. [4] The coalition made the Democratic Party the majority party nationally for decades.