In 1948 Thurmond, then still a Democrat, ran for president on an independent ticket to protest Democratic support for the first moves to end official racial segregation in the US.

• 1948年，当时还是民主党人的瑟蒙德以独立候选人的身份竞选总统，以抗议民主党支持在美国结束官方种族隔离所采取的初始步骤。