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The States’ Rights Party branched from Harry Truman’s domestic policy, which was the newly revealed Democratic Party. There were many restless Southerners and after their anti-Truman rebellion failed they decided to hold their own convention in Birmingham, Alabama. Here they selected Strom Thurmond, Governor of South Carolina, to lead their party. This was significant because this was the first break down of the formerly solid Democratic South. The States’ Rights Party was also known as the Dixiecrat Party. The States’ Rights Party was primarily based around segregation but there were actually five sections of the party’s platform. One criticized the “proposed FBI powers.” It also introduced warnings that the Republicans and the Democrats both wanted to have a authoritarian police state. Another section condemned “the effort to establish nation-wide a police state in this republic.” The overall largest part of the States’ Rights Party platform was the broad support of the states’