Thurmond ran for president as a Dixiecrat in 1948 with a platform of maintaining segregation.
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By 2004 it had become clear that he was a classic Dixiecrat masquerading as a Republican.
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He left the party in 1948 in protest against Harry Truman's support for civil rights, and ran for president as the candidate of the segregationist Dixiecrat Party.
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