cause they can
The northern Democrats supported Stephen A. Douglas for President in 1860, but the southern Democrats withheld support for Douglas. The South demanded that Douglas repudiate the Freeport Doctrine and support a federal slave law. The Douglas supporters pointed out that to do that would drive the northern Democrats into the Republican Party.
whigs
Northern workers opposed slavery; southern planters support it
Copperheads, who were mostly Democrats. They just opposed the war, and not necessarily the issue of slavery.
The Whig Party
The Southern Democrats Supported Slavery & They Elected John Breckenridge As Their Democratic Presidential Candidate.
to keep slavery
The Democratic party split in 1860 over slavery, in particular the question of whether it would be allowed in the new states that might join the union.
The Northern and Southern Democrats differed over the party's platform on slavery in 1860 since the southerners wanted the party to defend slavery in the platform and Northerners wanted the platform to support popular sovereignty as a way of deciding whether a territory became a free state or a slave state.
Dixiecrats were angry he supported civil rights. Storm Thurmond took the support of southern Democrats.
The northern Democrats supported Stephen A. Douglas for President in 1860, but the southern Democrats withheld support for Douglas. The South demanded that Douglas repudiate the Freeport Doctrine and support a federal slave law. The Douglas supporters pointed out that to do that would drive the northern Democrats into the Republican Party.
Because back around that time, there was no real divide between "Liberal" and "Conservative". Instead, the Republicans were most popular in the Northern States while the Democrats were most popular in the South, regardless of wealth. After the Civil War there was no slavery to support, but the 'Dixiecrats' (Southern Democrats) continued to refuse to support equal rights for freed slaves. For some time, Black Americans used to vote for Republicans because of Abraham Lincoln. It was Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal which persuaded them to support the Democrats, but the Democrats maintain the support of (racist) White Southerners until the 1960s.
cause they can
they supported slavery
The southerners supported Franklin because they trusted him in the issue of slavery. The northerners supported Franklin because he opened a railroad to the west coast , helping revive the slavery controversy.
Southern Democrats who favored both slavery and Manifest Destiny.
The possibility of the spread of slavery in the US.