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Bot GPT 3.5 There was no Dixiecrat candidate who ran for president in 1968 on a platform of segregation. The term "Dixiecrat" refers to a faction of Southern Democrats who broke away from the Democratic Party in 1948 in response to President Harry Truman's support for civil rights. While some Dixiecrats may have believed in segregation, by 1968, the Civil Rights Movement had made significant strides and segregation was increasingly becoming unpopular.
In the 1968 presidential election, the Democratic nominee was Hubert Humphrey, who was a supporter of civil rights. The Republican nominee was Richard Nixon, who ran on a platform of law and order, but did not openly support segregation. George Wallace, a former governor of Alabama, ran as the American Independent Party candidate in 1968 and did advocate for segregation, but he was not a Dixiecrat.