Third party candidates 1948-1972

[Timur]

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Edited September 13, 2021 by Timur

[Dobs]

Just now, Patine said:

Just a note. The NATIONALIST States Rights Party (properly with the, "Nationalist," in front) - Andrews, Faubus, and Kasper was a completely DIFFERENT party than the States' Rights Democrats, or Dixiecrats (Thurmond and Byrd). The former was much more actively right-wing, used Fascistic symbolry, including a party flag that mixed Confederate and Mosley Oswald's British Union of Fascists (specifically Oswald's, "lightning bolt," motif) imagery, and had more than just support from the KKK, but were actively involved with them deeply, and at a paramilitary-organizing level. The latter party were mostly protest tickets by disgruntled Segregationists and Paleoconservatives much the same as George Wallace running for the American Independent Party in 1968. Just a pedantic note, as you give both the same party name (even in 1960, where they both had candidates).

A good example of how a flaming pile of shit is a lot more troublesome than a regular pile of shit.

[Dobs]

14 minutes ago, Patine said:

Yes, but the flaming one got less votes and no EV's, fortunately. Unless you viewed the flaming one in reverse. I'm not quite clear.

The flaming one are the Nazi-adjacent fellows. So you are correct, they were far less marketable to the American public.

[Timur]

2 hours ago, Patine said:

Just a note. The NATIONALIST States Rights Party (properly with the, "Nationalist," in front) - Andrews, Faubus, and Kasper - was a completely DIFFERENT party than the States' Rights Democrats, or Dixiecrats (Thurmond and Byrd). The former was much more actively right-wing, used Fascistic symbolry, including a party flag that mixed Confederate and Mosley Oswald's British Union of Fascists (specifically Oswald's, "lightning bolt," motif) imagery, and had more than just support from the KKK, but were actively involved with them deeply, and at a paramilitary-organizing level. The latter party were mostly protest tickets by disgruntled Segregationists and Paleoconservatives much the same as George Wallace running for the American Independent Party in 1968. Just a pedantic note, as you give both the same party name (even in 1960, where they both had candidates).

I checked, and I will agree with you on Faubus and Kasper, but not Andrews. In fact the National States Rights Party was founded in 1958.