Dixiecrat Regionalist Party

In 1948, 1960, and 1968 the deep southern states delivered their electoral votes to independent Southern Democrats.

My question is, would a Dixiecrat Regionalist party have ever been viable? I'm thinking it'd be unified on "state's rights", cultural conservatism, and southern interests but potentially divided on economic issues.

The electoral college makes it unlikely to be an equal to the other parties, but lots of southern states have jungle primaries and runoff election laws so I don't see why there couldn't be a party down there.

Meanwhile, the Republicans and Democrats both end up more racially liberal due to a decline in Dixiecrat influence.
 
Bobbie Kennedy (one that survives) gets the nomination in 68 or 72 over George Wallace and the democrats take a turn significantly towards the left. At the same time, you get Nelson Rockerfeller on the other end and you don't get a real southern strategy from the Republicans so its still a more big business and relatively centrist republican party who are more or less socially liberal, if not slightly progressive.

Clearly neither side are appealing to the Southern Democrats/Dixiecrats so you have them split and form their own regional party (which would be a conservative party but economically populist most likely, and very regional and southern orientated).

They may not be equal but chances are, they will most likely play spoiler and hold a fair bit of the southern govenerships even today if it happened.
 
Meanwhile, the Republicans and Democrats both end up more racially liberal due to a decline in Dixiecrat influence

You sure about that? If we assume they're dominating the Southern seats in the House and Senate, than either party that wants to get anything done over their real national rivals is going to need to get their sign on... and they'll extract a price for that support.
 
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