Democratic Party of the State of Mississippi
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Mississippi Democratic Party
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| Chairperson | Bobby Moak |
| Founded | 1828 |
| Headquarters | P.O. Box 1583 - Jackson 39215 |
| Ideology | Current: Modern liberalism Progressivism Historical: Social conservatism Segregationism |
| National affiliation | Democratic Party |
| Seats in the Upper House |
20 / 52
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| Seats in the Lower House |
55 / 122
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County Results
Obama—80-90%
Obama—70-80%
Obama—60-70%
Obama—50-60%
Obama—<50%
Romney—<50%
Romney—50-60%
Romney—60-70%
Romney—70-80%
Romney—80-90%
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The Mississippi Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the state of Mississippi. The party headquarters is located in the state capital, Jackson, Mississippi.
The party has members and County Executive Committees in all 82 counties of the state. The Mississippi Democratic State Executive Committee is elected by congressional districts: 20 positions from each district.
The Mississippi Democratic Party holds one of the eight statewide offices and no majority in either legislative chambers. Mississippi Democrats hold one of the state's four U.S. House seats, and none of the state's U.S. Senate Seats.
Officers of the State Executive Committee include:
Others who have served as Mississippi Democratic Chairmen have included Rickey Cole of Ovett, former Congressman Wayne Dowdy of McComb, Jon Levingston of Clarksdale and State Senator Johnnie Walls of Greenwood.
Past executive directors have included Rickey Cole, Travis Brock, Sam R. Hall, Rosalind Rawls, Keelan Sanders, Amy Harris, Morgan Shands, and Alice Skelton.
Mississippi has two representatives to the Democratic National Committee:
These positions, unlike the officers, are elected every four years at the State Democratic Convention.
Mississippi was a large supporter of Jacksonian Democracy, which occurred during the Second Party System (roughly 1820-1860s). At this time, Mississippi politics moved from a state divided between the Whigs and Democrats to a solid one-party Democratic state. The Democratic Party strongly believed in states' rights as well as the right to the slave system. Tensions began to build between southern Democrats and northern Republicans and abolitionists.
In the summer of 1860, the Mississippi delegation walked out of the Democratic National Convention as a response to the convention's refusal to allow slavery in the state. Soon after, Mississippi seceded from the Union and joined many other states in forming the Confederate States of America.
After the end of the American Civil War in 1865, Reconstruction began in the United States. Many laws were put in place to allow suffrage for African-Americans, which troubled white Democrats. Democrats overpowered the Republicans to combat these laws by means of force and violence in a method known as the Mississippi Plan, formulated in 1875 and implemented in the election of 1876. This plan was also used in other southern states to overthrow Republican Rule. Thereafter, these states became known as the Solid South, meaning that they were solidly Democratic in political nature. This continued for the next seventeen presidential elections, until the elections of 1948. At this time, the Democrats began to show support for the Civil Rights Movement, which reduced southern support.
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