White Supremacy - Crisis or Plot?

UNITED States presidential elections; NOMINATIONS for public office; PRESIDENTIAL candidates; ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; POLITICAL parties

The Southern revolt in the Democratic Party is the climax of a movement of planters, industrialists and politicians which first: became articulate at the beginning of U.S. Presidents Franklin Roosevelt's second term in 1936. The long-standing party rule requiring a two-thirds' majority for the nomination of a Presidential candidate had been abolished at the summer convention. This rule was one of the half-dozen obsolete parliamentary procedures, deeply imbedded in the U.S. government, which had assured a Southern political élite-a poll-tax-purified electorate of about one million people in the eleven states of the old Confederacy-something like a controlling balance of power in national affairs.