Strom Thurmond and the Dixiecrats used ideas of freedom to justify their positions on civil rights and race by advocating states' rights. Since the government at the time was giving minorities more rights, the Dixiecrats argued that the federal government should let the states be free to make their own individual policies. This would also let businesses be free to hire whomever they choose.
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The reason can be attributed to the fact that if more states became free, then those states can easily overturn any southern legislation in government that aligned with their pro-slavery views and if more states became slave states, then the South would have a political advantage in the federal and state governments as this would mean more states would push for southern-aligned legislation.
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