-ˌkrat noun
( -s )
Usage: usually capitalized, often attributive
Etymology: Dixie Demo crat
: a member of a secessionist party of southern Democrats who bolted the Democratic party because of its advocacy of civil-rights legislation in the United States presidential campaign of 1948 — compare republocrat
• dix·ie·crat·ic | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷|krad.ik adjective , usually capitalized