1948 United States presidential election in South Carolina information
Election in South Carolina
Main article: 1948 United States presidential election
1948 United States presidential election in South Carolina
← 1944
November 2, 1948 (1948-11-02)
1952 →
Nominee
Strom Thurmond
Harry S. Truman
Party
Democratic (South Carolina)[1]
Democratic
Alliance
Dixiecrat
Home state
South Carolina
Missouri
Running mate
Fielding L. Wright
Alben Barkley
Electoral vote
8
0
Popular vote
102,607
34,423
Percentage
71.97%
24.14%
County Results
Congressional District Results
Thurmond
50-60%
60-70%
70-80%
80-90%
90-100%
Truman
50-60%
60-70%
President before election
Harry Truman
Democratic
Elected President
Harry Truman
Democratic
Elections in South Carolina
Federal government
U.S. President
1788-89
1792
1796
1800
1804
1808
1812
1816
1820
1824
1828
1832
1836
1840
1844
1848
1852
1856
1860
1868
1872
1876
1880
1884
1888
1892
1896
1900
1904
1908
1912
1916
1920
1924
1928
1932
1936
1940
1944
1948
1952
1956
1960
1964
1968
1972
1976
1980
1984
1988
1992
1996
2000
Rep
Dem
2004
Dem
2008
Dem
Rep
2012
Rep
2016
Dem
2020
Dem
2024
Dem
Rep
U.S. Senate
1897
sp 1898
1902
1903
1907
1908
1909
1913
1914
1918
sp 1918
1920
1924
1926
1930
1932
1936
1938
sp 1941
1942
1944
1948
1950
1954
1956
1960
1962
1966
sp 1966
1968
1972
1974
1978
1980
1984
1986
1990
1992
1996
1998
2002
2004
2008
2010
2014
sp 2014
2016
2020
2022
2026
2028
U.S. House of Representatives
1788
1790
1793
1794
1796
1798
1800
1803
1804
1806
1808
1810
1812
1814
1816
1818
1820
1823
1824
1826
1828
1830
1833
1834
1836
1838
1840
1843
1844
1846
1848
1850
1853
1854
1856
1858
1860
1868
1870
1872
1874
1876
1878
1880
1882
1884
1886
1888
1890
1892
1894
1896
1898
1900
7th 1901
1902
1904
1906
1908
1910
1912
1914
4th 1915
1916
1918
6th 1919
7th 1919
1920
1922
1924
1926
1928
1930
1932
1934
1936
1938
1940
1942
1944
1946
1948
1950
1952
4th 1953
1954
1956
1958
1960
1962
1964
1966
1968
1970
1st 1971
1972
1974
1976
1978
1980
1982
1984
1986
1988
1990
1992
1994
1996
1998
2000
2nd 2001
2002
2004
2006
2008
2010
2012
1st 2013
2014
2016
5th 2017
2018
2020
2022
2024
List of specials
State offices
General elections
2004
2006
2008
2010
2012
2014
2016
2018
2020
2022
2024
Gubernatorial elections
1865
1868
1870
1872
1874
1876
1878
1880
1882
1884
1886
1888
1890
1892
1894
1896
1898
1900
1902
1904
1906
1908
1910
1912
1914
1916
1918
1920
1922
1924
1926
1930
1934
1938
1942
1946
1950
1954
1958
1962
1966
1970
1974
1978
1982
1986
1990
1994
1998
2002
2006
2010
2014
2018
2022
2026
State Senate elections
2004
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
State House elections
2004
2006
2008
2010
2012
2014
2016
2018
2020
2022
2024
Ballot measures
2006
Amendment 1
2008
2010
2012
2014
Charleston
Mayoral elections
2007
2011
2015
2019
2023
Columbia
Mayoral elections
2005
2009
2010
2013
2017
2021
Rock Hill
Mayoral elections
2007
2011
2015
2019
2023
Greenville
Mayoral elections
2007
2011
2015
2019
2023
v
t
e
The 1948 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 2, 1948, as part of the 1948 United States presidential election. State voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.
South Carolina was won by States' Rights Democratic candidate Strom Thurmond, defeating the Democratic candidate, incumbent President Harry S. Truman, and New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey.
For six decades South Carolina had been a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party. The Republican Party had been moribund due to the disfranchisement of blacks and the complete absence of other support bases as South Carolina completely lacked upland or German refugee whites opposed to secession.[2] Between 1900 and 1944, no Republican presidential candidate ever obtained more than seven percent of the total presidential vote[3] – a vote which in 1924 reached as low as 6.6 percent of the total voting-age population[4] (or approximately 15 percent of the voting-age white population).
This absolute loyalty to the Democratic Party – so strong that even Catholic Al Smith in 1928 received over ninety percent of South Carolina's limited vote total at the same time as five former Confederate states voted for Herbert Hoover[5] – began to break down with Henry A. Wallace's appointment as Vice President and the 1943 Detroit race riots.[6] The northern left wing of the Democratic Party became as a result of this riot committed to restoring black political rights,[7] a policy vehemently opposed by most Southern Democrats as an infringement upon "states' rights". Tension widened much further when new President Harry Truman, himself a Southerner from Missouri, had described to him a number of horrifying lynchings and racial violence against black veterans, most crucially the beating and blinding of Isaac Woodard three hours after being discharged from the army.[8] Truman, previously viewed as no friend of civil rights, came to believe that racial violence against blacks in the South was a threat to the United States' image abroad and its ability to win the Cold War against the radically egalitarian rhetoric of Communism.[9]
The result was a major civil rights plan titled To Secure These Rights a year later, and a civil rights plank in the 1948 Democratic platform. Southern Democrats were enraged by these proposals and thus sought to form a "States' Rights" Democratic ticket, which would replace Truman as the official Democratic nominee.[10] In South Carolina, Dixiecrats completely controlled the situation and achieved this[11] as early as the state's May presidential primary.[12] Consequently, Thurmond and Mississippi Governor Fielding Wright were listed as the official "Democratic" nominees.
76% of white voters supported Thurmond.[13]
^Key; Southern Politics in State and Nation, p. 332
^Phillips, Kevin P. The Emerging Republican Majority. pp. 208, 210. ISBN 9780691163246.
^Mickey, Robert. Paths Out of Dixie: The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America's Deep South, 1944-1972. p. 440. ISBN 0691149631.
^Mickey; Paths Out of Dixie, p. 27
^Key junior, V.O. Southern Politics in State and Nation. p. 328. ISBN 087049435X.
^Scher, Richard K. Politics in the New South: Republicanism, Race and Leadership in the Twentieth Century. p. 95. ISBN 1563248484.
^Frederickson, Kari A. The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968. p. 39. ISBN 0807849103.
^Geselbracht, Raymond H. (ed.). The Civil Rights Legacy of Harry S. Truman. p. 53. ISBN 1931112673.
^Fredericksen. The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, p. 52
^Sabato, Larry J.; Ernst, Howard R. Encyclopedia of American Political Parties and Elections. p. 114. ISBN 9781438141817.
^Key. Southern Politics in State and Nation, p. 332
^Mickey. Paths Out of Dixie, pp. 146-149
^Black & Black 1992, p. 147.
and 30 Related for: 1948 United States presidential election in South Carolina information
The 1948UnitedStatespresidentialelection was the 41st quadrennial presidentialelection. It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 1948. In one of the greatest...
The 1948UnitedStatespresidentialelectionin North Carolina took place on November 2, 1948, as part of the 1948UnitedStatespresidentialelection. North...
2024 UnitedStatespresidentialelectioninSouthCarolina is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 UnitedStates elections...
2000 UnitedStatespresidentialelectioninSouthCarolina took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 UnitedStatespresidentialelection. Voters...
The 1948UnitedStatespresidentialelectionin Mississippi took place on November 2, 1948, in Mississippi as part of the wider UnitedStates presidential...
The 1948UnitedStatespresidentialelectionin Texas was held on November 2, 1948. Texas voters chose 23 electors to represent the state in the Electoral...
UnitedStatespresidentialelectioninSouthCarolina took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 UnitedStatespresidentialelection. South Carolina...
UnitedStatespresidentialelectioninSouthCarolina took place on November 4, 1952, as part of the 1952 UnitedStatespresidentialelection. South Carolina...
The 1948UnitedStatespresidentialelectionin Virginia took place on November 2, 1948, throughout the 48 contiguous states. Voters chose 11 representatives...
UnitedStatespresidentialelectioninSouthCarolina took place on November 6, 1956, as part of the 1956 UnitedStatespresidentialelection. South Carolina...
2008 UnitedStatespresidentialelectioninSouthCarolina took place on November 4, 2008, and was part of the 2008 UnitedStatespresidentialelection. Voters...
UnitedStatespresidentialelectioninSouthCarolina took place on November 8, 1960, as part of the 1960 UnitedStatespresidentialelection. South Carolina...
The 2016 UnitedStatespresidentialelection was held on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 General Electionin which all 50 states plus the District...
Global Information
