No, Democrat - even though a Southern Democrat is usually well to the Right of a Northern Republican.
Lincoln was Republican so anti-Republican resentment was wide-spread throughout the post-war South.
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Government by The People 2009 Brief Edition ch 4 pg 101 The Civil war made the democratic party the party of the south and the republican party of the north. This is where you will find the answer.
was the south apart of the american party or republican
"First president from the old south since before the civil war?"
The South blamed the Republican party and the US President, Lincoln a Republican for its defeat in the Civil War. For decades, the South turned to the Democrat party when voting as they blamed the Republican party for its defeat in the US Civil War. The term " solid South" meant that Democrats could always count on Southern States for their support in elections.
White men in the South have become increasingly Republican since 1961.
The Republican governments in the south had difficulty after the Civil War because the people of the south were upset over losing the war. They resented reconstruction and the fact that they had to let go of their slaves.
Because the South blamed the Civil War & Reconstruction on the Republican Party, the South was dominated by the Democrat Party for decades.
Because they were the victors, they wrote the rules.
The main goal for the reconstruction in the Civil War was to rebuild and accept the South in the US again, but radical republican reconstruction wanted to make the South pay for what they had done. The radical republican reconstruction was somewhat of a success in that they had several bills passed in Congress against the South.
southerners who joined the Republican Party and they wanted the South to industrialize as quickly as possible