Talk:Alabama Democratic Party

Cock logo
I don't have enough context to work this in in an appropriate manner, but for future reference the Alabama Democratic Party logo once featured a drawing of a rooster with a motto reading "White - For The Right". The rooster was first used as a Democratic symbol by Indiana democrats shortly after the 1840 presidential campaign. A 1935 version can be seen in the bottom corner of this pamphlet.

Counter to the wishes of Governor Wallace, the Alabama Democratic Party abandoned the logo on January 22, 1966, citing "the need for Negro voters and the surge of Republican Party strength in the state." The party was then headed by Robert Vance, who later became a Federal judge and victim of a terrorist's mail bomb.

Reaction against this emblem was the direct inspiration for the "Black Panther" party logo, first used by Stokely Carmichael's Lowndes County Freedom Organization in 1965. That organization was distinct from Huey Newton's Oakland-based Black Panther Party for Self Defense, but the Lowndes County drawing came to be adopted by the revolutionary group. --Dystopos (talk) 05:01, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Conservatism listed as ideology
I know alabama is a conservative state and alabama democrats are more conservative then northern ones, but is it really fair too consider them conservative? they still hold liberal beliefs? also it might be smart too change populism too left wing populism